[CentOS] forcing linux kernel 3 to recognize cdrom as hdX

[Manish Kathuria]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Oguz Yilmaz <oguzyilmazlist at gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually I have tried lots of things. As far as I see, this is not as
> simple as a symlink. Anaconda C application find CDROM according to some
> info provided by kernel. Also, Anaconda stage1 has a very limited debug
> option. I have possibilities to recompile kernel with some options or run
> kickstart with some kernel arguments. My original problem can be found at
> the following mailing list thread:
>
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.kickstart.general/9616/match=%5D
>
>
> --
> Oguz YILMAZ
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Manish Kathuria <
> mkathuria at tuxtechnologies.co.in> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
If you have references to cdrom in your kickstart file, as you have
mentioned in that forum, try to change them to match the device name being
assigned by the kernel.

-- 
Manish Kathuria