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by **Megan McCorma** » Mon, 26 Aug 1996 04:00:00

When Linux boots I receive:

'mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist'

The directory /cdrom does exist, I can see it. And so does /mnt and
/dosc but when I manually try to mount a file system to any of these
I still recieve the error message :

'Mount point /cdrom does not exist'
or
"Mount point /mnt does not exist'
or
"Mount point /dosc does not exist'

The boot does mount my dos file system to /dosc.

My fstab has the line:

/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 ro

Any clues? I'm running Linux slackware on a partioned hard drive of my
PC.

Thanks!

Megan

by **David Fett** » Sun, 01 Sep 1996 04:00:00

: When Linux boots I receive:

: 'mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist'

[snip]

: My fstab has the line:

: /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 ro
^^
This should be:

/dev/sda /cdrom iso9660 ro
^^

assuming that your CD-ROM is a SCSI device, and that it's the
first one on the chain.

Otherwise, you need to figure out which IDE port it's on. Mine, for
example, lives on /dev/hde because of a not too bizarre situation where
I have two hard drives, but the CD-ROM is on the sound board's controller.

: Any clues? I'm running Linux slackware on a partioned hard drive of my
: PC.

You'll eventually want to wipe that DOS partition for swap space :)

: Thanks!

You're welcome,

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by **John Barne** » Sun, 01 Sep 1996 04:00:00

> : When Linux boots I receive:

> : 'mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist'

> [snip]

> : My fstab has the line:

> : /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^
> This should be:

> /dev/sda /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^

> assuming that your CD-ROM is a SCSI device, and that it's the
> first one on the chain.

> Otherwise, you need to figure out which IDE port it's on. Mine, for
> example, lives on /dev/hde because of a not too bizarre situation where
> I have two hard drives, but the CD-ROM is on the sound board's controller.

> : Any clues? I'm running Linux slackware on a partioned hard drive of my
> : PC.

Have you looked for

/cdrom

on the system? mount will not create the mount point for you. The
directory must already be there. Might want to check to be sure you
don't have /CDROM and somhow overlooked the case difference, as well.

John Barnes

by **Andrew Pa** » Sun, 01 Sep 1996 04:00:00

>: When Linux boots I receive:

>: 'mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist'

>[snip]

First, make sure that a directory called /cdrom does, in fact, exist. If
not, create one.

Quote:>: My fstab has the line:

>: /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^
>This should be:

>/dev/sda /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^

Do a 'dmesg' and see what the bootup messages say. Mine say that it
detects a CDROM drive at /dev/sr0, as well, but none exist in my /dev
directory. Instead I use /dev/scd0 and it works great. /dev/sd[letter]
is usually used for direct access (random-access read/write) devices, I
think. At least, that's all I've ever seen them allocated for.

Quote:>: Any clues? I'm running Linux slackware on a partioned hard drive of my
>: PC.

>You'll eventually want to wipe that DOS partition for swap space :)

Yep. :)

Andrew
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Class of '98 (With luck!) Applied Science in Computer Science

by **Leonardo Ser** » Mon, 02 Sep 1996 04:00:00

>: When Linux boots I receive:
>: 'mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist'
>: My fstab has the line:
>: /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^
>This should be:
>/dev/sda /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^
>assuming that your CD-ROM is a SCSI device, and that it's the
>first one on the chain.

But shouldn't he also check that a directory called "/cdrom" actually
exists? I mean, the error messages mentions "/cdrom" not existing, so
perhaps "mkdir /cdrom" ...?

Leonardo

by **M. Buchenried** » Thu, 05 Sep 1996 04:00:00

>: When Linux boots I receive:
>: 'mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist'

You'll have to create the mountpoint by hand. If there's no
directory /cdrom , then the CDROM can't be mounted there.

Quote:>[snip]
>: My fstab has the line:
>: /dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^
>This should be:
>/dev/sda /cdrom iso9660 ro
> ^^
>assuming that your CD-ROM is a SCSI device, and that it's the
>first one on the chain.

Why would you want to mount a SCSI disk as a CDROM device ??
/dev/sd* entries are harddisks - not CDROM devices.

It should be

/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro

Michael