[ale] Compaq Presario 1240

[Jerry Z. Yu]

"mount /mnt/cdrom" will consult /etc/fstab to figure out which block
device to mount.
"mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" will use "/dev/hdc" as the block device to
mount, since you asked explicitly.

different behavior means that /etc/fstab is using things other than
/dev/hdc, probably /deb/scd0 like mine.


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 ChrisColeman at mail.clayton.edu wrote:

#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]
#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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