[ale] Compaq Presario 1240

[ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu]

yes, /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdc.

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From: stephen [mailto:stephen at phynp6.phy-astr.gsu.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:21 PM
To: ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu
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Subject: Re: [ale] Compaq Presario 1240


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 12:12:33PM -0500, ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Red Hat 7.2 on a Compaq Presario 1240 Laptop. The installation
> went off without a hitch. However, after the install, Linux will not mount
> any CD. Each time I try to mount the CD-ROM, it gives me an invalid block
> device error. It read the drive during the installation with no problems.
> Any ideas?

Do you have /dev/cdrom symlinked to your real block device? (i.e /dev/hdb,
/dev/hdc, or whatever?)

stephen

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