CentOS - Aug 2013 - forcing linux kernel 3 to recognize cdrom as hdX

Hello,

I have a problem with older version of anaconda linux installer. I have
upgraded kernel in my distro, but, when this anaconda boot with new 3.4.52
kernel, can NOT find cdrom. As far as I understand, this is because the new
kernel recognize cd drive as srX, scdX instead of older hdX with 2.6.18. At
the moment I can not upgrade anaconda and forced this kernel to recognize
it as before.

Are there any kernel command line argument, kernel config or something else
for kernel 3.4.52 to recognize this cdrom as hdX?

Best Regards,

--
Oguz YILMAZ

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Oguz Yilmaz <oguzyilmazlist at
gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with older version of anaconda linux installer. I have
> upgraded kernel in my distro, but, when this anaconda boot with new 3.4.52
> kernel, can NOT find cdrom. As far as I understand, this is because the new
> kernel recognize cd drive as srX, scdX instead of older hdX with 2.6.18. At
> the moment I can not upgrade anaconda and forced this kernel to recognize
> it as before.
>
> Are there any kernel command line argument, kernel config or something else
> for kernel 3.4.52 to recognize this cdrom as hdX?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> Oguz YILMAZ
>
I think you need to write some udev rules to name the device differently.
Refer to the following:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev/udev.html
http://www.linuxforu.com/2012/06/some-nifty-udev-rules-and-examples/
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

HTH,
-- 
Manish Kathuria

On 08/08/2013 05:09 PM, Oguz Yilmaz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with older version of anaconda linux installer. I have
> upgraded kernel in my distro, but, when this anaconda boot with new 3.4.52
> kernel, can NOT find cdrom. As far as I understand, this is because the new
> kernel recognize cd drive as srX, scdX instead of older hdX with 2.6.18. At
> the moment I can not upgrade anaconda and forced this kernel to recognize
> it as before.
>
> Are there any kernel command line argument, kernel config or something else
> for kernel 3.4.52 to recognize this cdrom as hdX?
>
> Best Regards,
>
www.elrepo.org has working 3.x kernels. Why don't you try theirs?

-- 
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant

On 8/8/2013 8:09 AM, Oguz Yilmaz wrote:
> I have a problem with older version of anaconda linux installer. I have
> upgraded kernel in my distro, but, when this anaconda boot with new 3.4.52
> kernel, can NOT find cdrom. As far as I understand, this is because the new
> kernel recognize cd drive as srX, scdX instead of older hdX with 2.6.18. At
> the moment I can not upgrade anaconda and forced this kernel to recognize
> it as before.
>
> Are there any kernel command line argument, kernel config or something else
> for kernel 3.4.52 to recognize this cdrom as hdX?
the treatment of "IDE" devices as a seperate /dev/hd* class was
removed
from the linux kernel quite a long time ago, now everything is mapped to 
'SCSI' devices, /dev/sd*

the anaconda in whatever older version you're running is not going to 
work with a newer kernel, you'll need a newer anaconda, and at this 
point, what you have no longer resembles CentOS


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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast