[H-GEN] Not a valid block device

[Simon Ellis]

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A known problem.

As per the RedHat Errata site,

1/ Log in as root
2/ depmod -ae

Simon Ellis.


--- Paul Cornford <pcornford at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 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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