Mounting CDROM

Tom Achtenberg plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 16:58:28 -0700


I did update the kernal as soon as I finished the installation.  The CD still 
will not mount.  Last time was I had an audio cd in the drive.  This time I 
had one of the distro disks in.

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 04:41 pm, you wrote:
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > Whenever I try to mount the CDROM I get the error message /dev/cdrom not
> > a valid block device.  I have a good data cd in the drive.
>
> ---
> We covered this one the last time that you installed RH 7.2 - it's a bug
> in the original distro.
>
> update to 2.4.9-7 kernel is best solution
>
> modprobe /dev/cdrom
> depmod -a
>
> Craig
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