Same thing happened to me. /dev/cdrom is wrong. Mine was /dev/hdc with the cdrom being in the first place of the secondary IDE.
hda is the first drive on the primary hdb is the second on the primary hdc is the first on the secondary hdd is the the second on the secondary .... Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Palanikumar Ramalingam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: Need help in getting the cdrom to work. > Dear redhat users: > I have a problem with my CDrom. I tried the following: > root@localhost kumar]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom > /mnt/cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > > My /etc/fstab > has the following (Initialy the cdrom had owner,kudzu > i removed them): > LABEL=/ / ext3 > defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 > defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts > gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /proc proc > defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs > defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb5 swap swap > defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > ~ > > Please explain what I need to do to get my CDROM to > work. In a previous install on the same m/c I had > CDROM working fine. Also during install it did not > have any problem. I have compaq5204 and RedHat 7.2. > > Also the KDE control center shows in block devices > Device Type Size Mount point Free Full% Usage > /dev/cdrom iso9660 n/a /mnt/cdrom > > > The hardware browser shows: > CD-ROm drives compaq CRD-8322B > Device information: > manufacturer :unknown > Driver : ignore > Device: /dev/hdc > > What should I do to fix the problem? > Please send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thankyou > Kumar. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
