Somehow, I have managed to make my CD invisible.
I do have the directory mnt/cdrom but nothing is shown there. (using Midnight Commander.)
Am I right in assuming that you meant to type /mnt/cdrom ?
While this is a traditional mount point for CDs, not all systems automount CDs there (in fact, in my personal experience, CDs usually do *not* automount on Linux systems).
First thing ... with an iso9660-filesystem CD in the drive, enter (as root)
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
and see if that makes the CD "visible". (Or, if /dev/cdrom does not exist, usually as a symlink, replace it with the appropriate underlying device for the drive, for *example* /dev/hdc .)
If this command fixes the problem, you just need to make your system automount (and auto-umount) CDs. I'm kind of rusty on this myself -- I don't use automount here -- but there used to be two ways to do it ... via AMD (Auto Mount Daemon, a userspace process) and via autofs (a kernelspace method). I don't know if both are still in use ... on a quick search, I only found an old mini-HowTo ... while it referred to both, it was a couple of years old.
For more help, you'll need to tell us how your system was automounting before (assuming it was, of course, and that I haven't misunderstood you) as well as the usual basics of your setup.
If this command does not fix the problem, then you probably need to check that the CD drive itself is working and is recognized by your kernel. Details require a description of your setup. But one quick check is to see if a CD ripper (like cdparanoia) can read the CD drive.
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