Topic: Shame ....:-(

[guestFF]

uuuh hi,

I want want to uuuuhhh try to mount my cdrom on SMEV5.

uuuuh I enter 'mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' and no luck.... (
smbmount doesn;t help, man pages don't help..

PLEASE help, I'll be a good boy in the future. please, please, please....

A little boy

[Kelvin]

Hi H.F.,

Try this :-

mount /dev/cdrom

To ls the cdrom,

ls /mnt/cdrom

Regards,

Kelvin

[guestFF]

Hi Kelvin,

Thanks for answering such a du.. question ....

After entering "mount /dev/cdrom"

I get :

[root@server /root]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
       or too many mounted file systems

Any idea why?

Regards,

that same lb...

[Rob Hillis]

guestFF wrote:

> After entering "mount /dev/cdrom"
> I get :
> [root@server /root]# mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>        or too many mounted file systems

This *can* indicate a problem with the drive or the CD.  First, just to be sure, try the following command...

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If that fails, check to be sure there's a symbolic link in you /dev directory from cdrom to the specific device that is your CDROM. (remembering that hda is the master on the first IDE channel, hdb is the slave on the first channel, hdc is the primary on the second channel and hdd is the slave on the second channel)

If this link isn't correct, remove it and recreate the link using the following command...

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom

Assuming, of cource that your CDROM is hdd.

[guestFF]

Hi Rob / Kelvin,

Entering: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

gives me:

[root@server /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
       or too many mounted file systems

The /dev/cdrom symbolic link is pointed towards /dev/hdc wich is correct (First IDE device on second IDE channel)

SMEV5 is installes on this machine in the exact same configuration as it is now.

Any suggestion?

regards,

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[Rob Hillis]

guestFF wrote:
> Entering: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> gives me:
> [root@server /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>        or too many mounted file systems

Unless this drive is a CD burner, it's likely to be a bad CD, drive or drive cable.  Try another CD to be sure.  I frequently had this problem with burnt CDs in my ordinary drive when my CD burner was slowly dying...

If this drive is a burner, it *may* be installed as /dev/scd0... best way to check for this is to look at /etc/lilo.conf - if there's a line in there that looks like 'append=" hdc=ide-scsi"' (possibly with other parameters on the line, then your drive has almost certainly been installed as /dev/scd0.  (I didn't think of this when I sent the last message)

[guestFF]

Hi again,

It's no burner. Tryed different cd's (copied and original) no luck, same message.

One thing though, when I try to boot, the cd-rom drive is not accessed at all, no light is burning or spinning of the drive. Just the HD light flashes, that's all.

When I reboot the machine with a SMEV5 install cd in it, it boots from cd and asks me to "accept" to continue (abort, just checking..)

^ ^   .....???
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[Sidney]

Hi,


   I am no linux expert but you might want to look to see if the
cdrom jumper is set to master or slave. if it is sharing the ribbon cable with the hard drive then it should be set to slave.
if it has it's own cable and plug into secondary ide port
then set it to master. Also you could look to see where the red stripe on the cable is plug into the cdrom. it should be closes to the power plug on the cdrom.

a couple of other sugestion.
1. try a differnt ribbon cable.
2. test the cdrom in another pc to see it you can get it to work.


I hope this helps

good luck!

Sidney

[Chad Vogelsong]

There is another thing you might want to check.  It goes along with the M/S jumper setting on your HD/CD drives.  Makes sure none of them are set to "CS" (cable select).  This can have disasterous effects on some linux distro's and no effect on others.

But it's still something to check out.

Chad

[Dan G.]

I agree.  I have set up Red Hat systems with CS, and it worked fine during setup, but would not mount the CD-ROM after setup.   If there is nothing else on that that IDE controller, set it to Master, and give it a whirl.  Also, check to make sure your BIOS setting for that device is set to Auto.

Dan

[guestFF]

Hi all,

Thanks for you replies.

The CD-Rom is set to Master and is the only device on the cable.

still trying....

regards,

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[Brian Barber]

I know that it's an old post, but check this out...

http://www.e-smith.org/faq.php3#7q22

It solved my problem.

BB