As you can see from my post in kickstart list, this method will not work. -- Oguz YILMAZ On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Manish Kathuria < mkathuria at tuxtechnologies.co.in> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >