cdrom won't mount
rod holcomb
rodbrenda.2 at gbronline.com
Wed Nov 13 17:01:34 CST 2002
Last night I used the included cdroms from the book Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible to upgrade my RH 7.0
machine. Now I can not mount the cdrom (not a valid block device). I looked at the dmesg (?)
file and it has a lines that say it recognizes the cdrom and it also recognizes the floppy, fd0.
Farther down in this file I get several lines that say these are invalid block devices. I dont
think I can mount the floppy either.
One of the passages from the book says under:
Reconfiguring the kernel
Deciding to reconfigure the kernel
Block devices:
For some older disk drives, you may need to use an old disk-only driver on the primary interface.
With that selected, you wont be able to have an IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM attached to the primary IDE
interface. However, turning on the disk-only driver may be necessary for some older disk drives.
The cd drives I am using are rather old x4 and x8 but they are not on the primary IDE. I also
allowed this upgrade to change my boot loader to GRUB from LiLo.
Any ideas what I should do try next. Is the reconfigure of the kernel mensioned in the book just
changing boot options or is it a recompile?
thank for any help
rod holcomb
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