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by **Troy Bayli** » Tue, 10 Feb 1998 04:00:00

G'day all,

Thanks to Perry Grieb for replying to my last post, unfortunatley
the problem still persists, i changed jumpers on my cdrom (atapi IDE drive)
to make it a secondary master, but now when linux boots it says hdc not
detected' instead of hdd before.
Anyway this is what happens if i do the following:

% mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
returns:
mount: the kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom as a
block
device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)

and % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
returns the same message.

I don't even know if i am using the correct arguments for these commands
Does this mean i need to install drivers or something? i did the install
straight of the infomagic cd pack and i did a full install. (i installed
straight from cd also btw)

Please enlighten me,
thanks in advance

by **Brandon P. van Zy** » Wed, 11 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> G'day all,

> Thanks to Perry Grieb for replying to my last post, unfortunatley
> the problem still persists, i changed jumpers on my cdrom (atapi IDE drive)
> to make it a secondary master, but now when linux boots it says hdc not
> detected' instead of hdd before.
> Anyway this is what happens if i do the following:

> % mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> returns:
> mount: the kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom as a
> block
> device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)

> and % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
> returns the same message.

> I don't even know if i am using the correct arguments for these commands
> Does this mean i need to install drivers or something? i did the install
> straight of the infomagic cd pack and i did a full install. (i installed
> straight from cd also btw)

> Please enlighten me,
> thanks in advance

This may sound like a stupid question, but is your kernel compiled with CDROM
support ? In addtion: /dev/cdrom is almost *always* a link to the actuall
device.
In my case, /dev/cdrom is a link pointing to /dev/hdc. Make sure that the
/dev/cdrom actually exists in the /dev directory!! If it doesn't you wont be
mounting
anything!! In addtion: does the mount point exist ? That is, is there a
directory
called /mnt/cdrom ? Your target (mount point) must also exist!! This is a
trivial
point since you would probably have seen the error
"mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist" if it wasn't there already.

Hope some of this helps,

--
Brandon P. van Zyl
Dept. of Physics
Queen's University
Kingston, ON, Canada
K7L 3N6

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