Make sure that your system is finding your cdrom drive when it boots. dmesg | less
I don't think you are making a backup of a music cd, but just in case you are I hope you know that you can't mount audio disks. Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and Performance Parts. On Thu, 11 Jul 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:28, Shawn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For some reason when I plop in a cd to make a backup, my system no longer > > recognizes the cdrom drive. > > > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > > > (used to be automatic anyway...) > > > > I am hoping that it's just a configuration file matter. > > > > Anytips on what file I should be looking at and what should be there? > > Have you checked to see if /dev/cdrom is a dead symbolic link? If so, > you'll want to recreate the /dev/cdrom with the actual device (for > instance, if your CDROM is the second device on the IDE channel, you'd > type: ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom) > > -- > Fri Jul 11 16:35:00 EST 2003 > 16:35:00 up 4 days, 18:07, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.12, 0.07 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > | __ __ |kuhn media australia | > | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | > | .\__/ || | | |================================| > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 > Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > > The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene > of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process > as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The > employee is simply there one instant, and gone the next. All the terrible > temper tantrums, crying, and threats are eliminated. > -- Kenny's Korner > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
