I had this problem when upgrading to a kernel that didn't have cdrw 
support compiled in. Is it possible this is a cdrw?

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Tom Achtenberg wrote:

> I just upgraded my RH 7.0 to 7.2.  Now when the computer is booting I get
> the following error:  "etc/fstab Cannot Stat /dev/cdrom  No such file or
> directory.  The file is there and I have set the permissions to 777.  The CD
> worked fine for doing the upgrade but cannot be accessed from Linux.  What
> should I do?
> 
> Tom Achtenberg
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