Hello Brian, Your cdrom is not linked to /dev/cdrom. It appears that you have a SCSI cdrom, look at the full output from dmesg and you should see which device the cdrom is on. Try mounting that device (usually something like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc) and see what happens.
JBB Monday, January 07, 2002, 10:53:15 PM, you wrote: BT> Hi, BT> I just installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 today, and the install went just fine. BT> The only problem I have is I can't mount my CD-ROM drive. Using 'dmesg', I BT> see the following: BT> scsi(): SCSI Host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices BT> Vendor: HP Model:CD-Writer+ 8000 Rev: 2.5C BT> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI Revision: 02 BT> I have tried the GNOME desktop interface to mount the CD-ROM, as well as the BT> command-line: BT> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom BT> and invariably I get the following output: BT> mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device BT> Also, I tried to manually edit the /etc/fstab file to mount the CD-ROM at BT> startup, but I get the same "unkown device" error there too. BT> To make things even more bewildering, the first time I installed this very BT> same RH version using the very same CD a few hours prior (I reinstalled BT> because I had entered a 105-key keyboard instead of 104-key), the CD-ROM BT> mounted just fine!! I haev since tried reinstalling three times, to no BT> avail. BT> I have seen the OS detect this device during 1) installation, 2) startup, BT> and 3)'dmesg'. (During installation it detected it as hdc: CD-ROM, which is BT> correct, Secondary Master.) BT> So why then is the CD-ROM not mounting????? BT> Any and all help is much appreciated, BT> Brian BT> _________________________________________________________________ BT> Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com BT> _______________________________________________ BT> Redhat-list mailing list BT> [EMAIL PROTECTED] BT> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Best regards, Jonathan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
