Re: Can't mount cdrom

["Jared L. Black" <jaybee bendcable com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 10:56, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jared L. Black wrote:
> > I have RH8.0, which has X-CD-ROAST (ver0.98alpha9) as a CD burner.  I
> > used it one time to create a data CD and it worked OK except somehow it
> > took the /dev/cdrom line out of the fstab file.  Now I can't get any CD
> > to load in the drive.  
> > 
> > If I do a mount /mnt/cdrom command (as root) I get the error: 
> > 
> > mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist
> > 
> > Also, when I boot up, I get the line
> > 
> > updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory
> > [failed]
> > 
> > 
> > I edited the fstab file and put the correct cdrom line back, but that
> > didn't help.
> > 
> > The line is (some spaces deleted to fit on one line in this message)
> > 
> > /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> >  
> > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Make sure the directory /mnt/cdrom exists:
> 
> 	# ls -l /mnt
> 
> If it doesn't exist, create it (as root):
> 
> 	# mkdir -p -m 755 /mnt/cdrom
> 
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I did the ls -l /mnt and the cdrom wasn't there.  I did the command 

mkdir -p -m 755 /mnt/cdrom

as root.  Then I rebooted and again got the message  
updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory
[failed]  

And it won't see the CD and doing a "mount /mnt/cdrom" gives an error 

mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

Any other suggestions?  Maybe the drive is roasted.

Thanks
Jared Black