The kernel is telling you that it can't find a CD-ROM-drive-based filesystem
on /dev/hdc . This may be true for any of several reasons, such as
... your CD-ROM is at a different location
/dev/hda = IDE primary master
/dev/hdb = IDE primary slave
/dev/hdc = IDE secondary master
/dev/hdd = IDE secondary slave
/dev/sd* = various scsi devices
watch the kernel messages at boot, or check dmesg,
to see if and where the kernel is finding
a CD-ROM device during boot
... you don't have ATAPI CD-ROM support in your kernel
(this is what the error message is hinting at -- you
might need to add the appropriate module using insmod
or modprobe -- read the man pages on insmod, depmod, and
modprobe for details -- this is unlikely unless you are
using either an ancient or oddball Linux distribution)
... you have a non-standard CD-ROM that is not supported by
the kernel (this may also be what the error message is
suggesting, but if so, you have an old drive ... all
modern PCs I know use ATAPI drives, standard drives
that connect as an IDE device).
... you don't have a readable CD in the drive. The "mount"
command mounts filesystems, not evices as such, and
it can't "mount" an empty CD drive or one that contains,
say, a music CD.
At 12:00 PM 10/29/99 -0400, Rod Upfold wrote [in part]:
>Having problems with mounting my cdrom.....
>mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
>
>the computers goes off to the twilight zone and then comes back and says:
>
>the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod
>driver')
>
>What is a insmod driver and what am I doing wrong....
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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