Here's what seems to be happening (I got the same error last night
after upgrading the kernel, but before settign up module dependancies):
The kernel doesn't recognize the cdrom. the fact that it worked before
suggests that you MAY have put it in a dfferent IDE/SCSI position.
What type of CDROM is it? IDE, SCSI, Non-ATAPI (Mistsumi, etc.).
What IDE/SCSI position is it in? Actually, during installation RedHat
should have created a link from /dev/cdrom to the correct /dev/xxx entry.
Hmm, Let me ask you this: Are all Hard Disks and the CDROM in your machine
IDE. From the way it is treating the CDROM, I am guessing that either they
aren't, or the /dev/cdrom symlink is broken. check /etc/fstab.
If you don't understand "fstab" check the man page for it, and post it
to this list. If you DO understand it, what does the /dev/cdrom entry
look like?
Bryan
>
> Sorry, I probably should been more descriptive about my problem.
> About 4 weeks age I installed Linux Red Hat 5.2. on my computer. Every
> thing seemed to work fine including my CD-ROM drive. Then I got a new
> motherboard and CPU. I cleared all my HD's and reinstall every thing
> from scratch Windows and Linux. I think that I maintained the same
> configuration of my drives. I have tried all of the things you all
> suggested except compile a custom kernel, (I don't know how to that).
> And, have had the same results as before. Thanks for your help so far.
>
> Micah
>
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