[ale] Compaq Presario 1240

[ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu]

RH has an entry in /etc/fstab for the cdrom. When I go to the prompt and
type:

mount /mnt/cdrom

it worked. I tried:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

it wouldn't mount. Well, anyway, it appears to be working now. I rebooted
the machine and could mount the drive.

Thanks for all the help!

Chris Coleman

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Z. Yu [mailto:z.yu at Ptek.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:32 PM
To: stephen
Cc: ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Compaq Presario 1240


	RH72 actually automatically configure those symlinks as well as
fstab entries.  For reason I don't understand, an EIDE ATAPI internal
CDROM of mine was detected and configured as /dev/scd0. If I try to access
it as /dev/hdd (secondary slave) it will not work.

# to check what is detected by kernel during boot up.
	dmesg | egrep -i "hd|scd"
# to check symlinks of possible cdrom device entry, as stephen stated,

	ls -l /dev/cdrom*
	grep -i cdrom /etc/fstab


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, stephen wrote:

#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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