I just installed 8.1 rc1 -- clean install because I want to play with xfs. Now when I try to mount my cdrom or floppy I get 'unknown device' and /var/log/messages contains: Sep 23 15:08:01 charon modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-143 I used DrakConf->Hardware to scan my system and if found the cdrom as hdc, but there is no /dev/hdc. Unfortunately I forget what the major and minor are for hdc otherwise I would simply create it using mknod. There is the link /dev/cdrom which is unusual to say the least. Here is how it translates: [root@charon dev]# ls -l /dev/cdrom lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Sep 23 10:30 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 [root@charon dev]# ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Dec 31 1969 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd I am not familar with this new set of references and it may because my '/' is XFS. If so, what is wrong with my fstab? [root@charon dev]# cat /etc/fstab # the basic file systems needed by Linux /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 /dev/hda7 / xfs noatime 1 1 /dev/hda8 /home xfs noatime 1 2 # the virtual file systems used by Linux none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # the supermounts for the removable media #/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/dvd 0 0 #/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,exec,noatime 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,exec,noatime 0 0 # the optional file systems that the user may mount when desired /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze vfat noauto,user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 # and of course, swap. /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 NOTE: this is an fstab from 8.0->8.1beta1->8.1rc1 with ext2 only that I used and I just idioticly over wrote the 8.1rc1 with xfs without looking at it first thinking that there would be no difference except the xfs. Any and all help is appreciated. Al Niessner
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