Ext3 users - Oct 2001 - cdrom driver load attempt at boot

Hi there,

I've been using ext3 on RedHat 7.1 for some time and I'm very pleased
with
the result. Thanks for all the hard work people have put in it!

I have however one problem: when the machine boots up it tries to load the 
mcd and mcdx CD-ROM drivers (AFAIK they are old non-standard CD-ROMs). It 
does this from rc.sysinit right after loading usb devices. The machine 
started to do this when I converted the root filesystem to ext3, I've 
never had this problem before.

Loading of these drivers fails (since I don't have any of those CD-ROM 
drives) and the bootup sequence continues as normal, but the attempt to 
load this takes like 20 secs.

My machine is an HP Omnibook Laptop 4150.

Any idea on what could be the cause for this odd behaviour? What could be 
causing the kernel to try and load those devices?

Thanks in advance,

	Diego
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Hi,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:28:31PM +0200, Diego Santa Cruz wrote:
 
> I've been using ext3 on RedHat 7.1 for some time and I'm very
pleased with
> the result. Thanks for all the hard work people have put in it!
What kernel did you use?
 
> I have however one problem: when the machine boots up it tries to load the 
> mcd and mcdx CD-ROM drivers (AFAIK they are old non-standard CD-ROMs). It 
> does this from rc.sysinit right after loading usb devices. The machine 
> started to do this when I converted the root filesystem to ext3, I've 
> never had this problem before.
If you built those drivers into the kernel, then this would happen.
Otherwise, you'd be as well looking in /etc/modules.conf to see if
something thinks that those drivers are needed.

Cheers,
 Stephen