[H-GEN] Not a valid block device

[Rick Phillips]

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Hi Paul,

My understanding is that if your CD-ROM is on the second IDE port it should
be device hdc or hdd depending on whether it is a master or slave.  Try
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc (or d) /mnt/cdrom.  If it works, change the fsatb
accordingly.  Mandrake has caused a few problems during install on version
8.1 in not picking up some of the drives properly.

Regards,

Rick

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From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of
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Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:19 AM
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Subject: [H-GEN] Not a valid block device


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I have just installed RH 7.2 on a P166 and now cannot mount the cdrom. I
had no problem installing off the CD ROM and the same machine had RH 6.2
running prior to this installation with CD ROM access.  When I try
mounting it I get the message "mount: /dev/cdrom: is not a valid block
device".

dmesg gives "hdb: SONY CDU4811, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive". I have tried
mounting it manually using "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom" but
still the same error. (The cdrom is on the second IDE port and there is
only one hard drive with one ext3 partition and one swap partition). The
fstab entry is
"/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0".

Everything else appears to be working normally.  Can anyone help me on this?

Regards,

Paul C.


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