cdrecord and ide-scsi question

[Cyber Source]

is there a reason why you can't or don't want to reboot?

Frank Kumro wrote:

> I looked at the man lilo and didnt find anything. I also re-ran the 
> lilo command sucessfully however that yealed no results. When I ran 
> cdrecord --scanbus it still shows my DVD-ROM drive as my 0,0,0 and for 
> the rest * - I did edit the lilo config to reflect the changes I 
> wanted but I dont want to reboot. Anyone else know of a solution?
>
> -Frank
>
> green_man wrote:
>
>> Frank Kumro wrote:
>>
>>> I just noticed that I had my normal cdrom set so on boot lilo runs 
>>> the command for ide-scsi on it to make it so i can record cds. 
>>> However it should have been hdd not hdc that the line should have 
>>> pointed to.  Is there a way to enable hdd to be used for cdrecording 
>>> without rebooting? I really dont want to reboot so if there is a way 
>>> please enlighten me. Also Merry Christmas to everyone!
>>>
>>> -Frank
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Frank - I can't find it right now, but I think  you just rerun lilo.
>> It's /bin/lilo or /sbin/lilo or something like that . I do remember 
>> reading it at one point in time.
>> IIRC, it was really simple.
>> What  you basically need to do is edit the file, and force lilo to 
>> reread the file, instead of using the copy the machine has cached.
>> Check and see if there's a Howto text file for lilo buried some where.
>> Hope this helps.
>>
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