cdrom won't mount

[Jason Clinton]

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rod holcomb wrote:
| Last night I used the included cdroms from the book Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible
| to upgrade my RH 7.0 machine.   Now I can not mount the cdrom   (not a valid
| block device).  I looked at the dmesg (?) file and it has a lines that say
| it recognizes the cdrom  and it also recognizes the floppy, fd0.   Farther
| down in this file I get several lines that say these are invalid block
| devices.   I dont think I can mount the floppy either.
|

I'm going to theorize that SuperMount isn't compatible with your CD-ROM, I would
try disabling that and then see what happens. The other stuff you mentioned
would have nothing to do with this problem.

SuperMount isn't all that compatible anyways and it's really a Bad Idea since
it's designed to emmulated the Windoze "Autoplay" feature on Linux (read:
polling the CD-ROM every 200msecs for the presence of a disk). It also brings
with it some security problems.

Also, is there a /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0? Is there an entry for it in /etc/fstab
and what does that line read?

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