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cdrom is not a valid bloack device
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| hi,
I used to have redhat 6.2 on my hd. I made this
hd slave and added a primary with redhat 7.2.
Now, my cdrom does not work. Everytime I mount
cdrom, it gives me /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
device. It is correct in /dev/cdrom
thanks.
queen
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| JamieBohr 2002-10-07, 4:24 pm |
| I'm assuming you moved your CDrom to another IDE channel, with this in
mind did you change the CDrom to slave/master on the other channel?
Does your computer see the CDROM on bootup?
- Jamie
queen wrote:
> hi,
>
> I used to have redhat 6.2 on my hd. I made this
> hd slave and added a primary with redhat 7.2.
> Now, my cdrom does not work. Everytime I mount
> cdrom, it gives me /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
> device. It is correct in /dev/cdrom
>
> thanks.
>
> queen
>
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-10-07, 9:24 pm |
| On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 06:04 am, queen posted to alt.os.linux the following
blurb ::
> hi,
>
> I used to have redhat 6.2 on my hd. I made this
> hd slave and added a primary with redhat 7.2.
> Now, my cdrom does not work. Everytime I mount
> cdrom, it gives me /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
> device. It is correct in /dev/cdrom
What you will probably find is that /dev/cdrom is a link to an actual
hdX value, now if the CDROM was the primary slave orginally this would
mean that it was set as "hdb" [BUT] your old harddrive is now hdb and
your CDROM is presumably "hdc"...
Edit your fstab to reflect this change
[OR]
Run a ls -o /dev/cdrom
and see where it points too, if it points to /dev/hdb
then remove the link and create a new one to your actual CDROM
decive and try mounting again. (the device can be determined upon
boot up by where it is reported ie. Primary Master/Slave or Secondary
Master/Slave....)
--
cheerio
Registered Linux User 282072
<www.volutin.net -- everything irrelevant>
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