[H-GEN] Not a valid block device

[Paul Cornford]

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Yes, these were the first things I tried. Actually the cdrom is set as 
master on ide2 so I tried to mount /dev/hdc and this didn't work either. 
Then I tried hdd and so on. Sounds like a kernel upgrade is in order 
though. Thanks for the help.

Rick Phillips wrote:

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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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of
>Paul Cornford
>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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