mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

[Ladinig Rudolf]

Edwin Humphries schrieb:
> G'day,
> 
> I'm getting the error message "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block 
> device" when I try to mount the CD.
> 
> This is after installing RH7.2 on an old Pentium I/166 (to modify an 
> old 7.2-based application); the box has no floppy drive. I raise that 
> because the /dev/cdrom symlink points to /dev/hdb (not hdc as I 
> believe is normal) and the log shows the following:
> 
> localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97
> localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: 
> insmod ide-cd failed
> localhost kernel: hdb: driver not present
> 
> dmesg shows multiple repeats of:
> ide-floppy driver 0.97
> hdb: driver not present
> 
> The fstab line shows:
> /dev/cdrom/  /mnt/cdrom/  iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro  0 0
> 
> Should the /dev/cdrom symlink be pointing to /dev/hdc rather than 
> dev/hdb? If so, how do I change it - I haven't done that yet?
> 
> Edwin Humphries,
> Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd
> edwin at ironstone.com.au
> www.ironstone.com.au
> Phone: 02 4233 2285
> Fax: 02 4233 2299
> Mobile: 0419 233 051
> 
> 

Some time I got the same error message,
depmod -ae
fixed it.

RLadinig
Borg Innsbruck