Re: error with cdrom.

[awesome-dave1 juno com]

Hi,
	Thanks, that depmod -a did it. I also installed an updated initscripts
rpm, that might have helped as well.
Dave.


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:47:01 -0800 (PST) jmraz <mrazj ecs csus edu>
writes:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 awesome-dave1 juno com wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 	Situation, rh 7.2, when i try to mount a rom for the first 
> time, using
> > the command mount /mnt/cdrom, i get the error /dev/cdrom is not a 
> valid
> > block device. I then do modprobe cdrom and it works fine. Does 
> anyone
> > know why this is occurring?
> 
> * This question was answered by Devon a several weeks ago:
> 
> For the short term, 'depmod -ae' will solve the problem. Updating to
> the errata releases will solve it as well.
> 
> Details here:
> http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/gotchas/7.2/
> 
> * It worked for me, but to make sure it worked on your box, mount
>   a cd, and run 'lsmod'  Module "cdrom" or "ide-cd" will be there
>   now, and the cd will have already been mounted.
> 
>   jmraz;
> --
> 
> 
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