[linux-help] Re: Can't mount cdrom

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

try:

            mount -t  iso9660  /dev/hd? /mnt/cdrom

where ? = b or c or d depending on which half of which  ide controller 
your drive is connected to

bruce wrote:

>I installed RH7.2 on a rather minimal system (P133, 32MB memory, 1.2GBdisk) 
>and the install went pretty well and the cdrom worked perfectly during the 
>install. but when I booted up, I couldn't mount the cdrom.  
>
>[root@bertha]# mount  /mnt/cdrom
>mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
>/dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc and /hdc is not listed in /proc/partitions.  
>/etc/fstab looks normal.
>
>[root@bertha]# cat  /etc/fstab
>....(other stuff) ....
>/dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom        iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
>[bruce@bertha]$ ls /dev/cdrom -l
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Jan 10 13:26 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
>
>hdc not being listed in /proc/partitions may be the root of my problem, but 
>can it be fixed?
>
>A reinstall of RH7.2 came out the same.
>
>iso9660 is listed in /etc/filesystems.
>
>I can't see anything in man mount that might pertain.
>
>any help appreciated.
>bruce
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