K.Ghosh wrote . . .
>My RH7.2 installation does not recognise my CDROM, even though RH7.2 was >installed from CDROM. The entry in /etc/fstab is correct, but the >complaint is that dev/cdrom is not a valid block device. I tried to >mount the CDROM as /dev/hdb, but the complaint remains the same. >I remember a member of this list had a similar problem, and I request to >know how his problem was solved. >-K.Ghosh. Me too faced a similar problem when I installed Mandrake 8.1 a few days ago. In my case, the floppy drive was not detected. I mean, detected but, but gave the error "not a valid block device" when I tried to access it. I did "dmesg | less" and found some lines which showed that the floppy drive was detected by the kernel, but the IO port address seemed to be in use. The main culprit seemed to be that the PnP BIOS option was turned on in the kernel shipped with Mandrake 8.1. So, recompiled the kernel without the PnP BIOS support and the problem was solved. In your case, perhaps the reason for your CDROM not working is something similar. Regards, Santanu Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
