On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Roland McGrath wrote: > > This is probably me. The cdrom can be mounted with settrans /cdrom > > /hurd/isofs /dev/hd2 and I have managed to umount is by using settrans > > -fg /cdrom followed by settrans -fg /dev/hd2, but I cannot remount it, > > the error is bad superblock. Any ideas? Apt-cdrom cannot mount it > > either. So we are stuck with dselect for F1 at least. > > That second command is clearing the passive translator setting on /dev/hd2. > So after that you need to reset it (i.e. what MAKEDEV hd2 does). You > should use settrans -fga to clear the active translator (aka unmount) > without changing the permanent setting on disk. > Did yahi (Yet Another Hurd Install) and this worked fine. BUT settrans -g /dev/hd2 had to be used to enable the cdrom drive to open. The clumsy fix was to recreate /dev/hd2 before remounting the CD.
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