Am Di, den 13.01.2004 schrieb David Balazic um 17:08: > I just installed FC1. > ATAPI burner is on hda > > Log in as normal user, click "CD Writer" in menu, gtoaster is started. > Problems : > - right at start it asks me for the root password > - it does not seem to detect any CD writer > - I can't burn a CD :-( > > What is the current situation with gtoaster. Is it supposed to work out of > the box ? > Does it require some configuration ? > How can I tell that everything is OK ( I am looking at its window, how can I > tell that > the CD burner is detected ? ) > > Regards, > David With kernel 2.4 you need to pass a kernel parameter in grub.conf or lilo.conf at boot time like kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2140.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi which is for the grub.conf. Note the hdX=ide-scsi. For lilo.conf it would be a separate line append="hdX=ide-scsi" Where always the X in hdX must fit the CD-writer drive letter like c or d. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653