Lawrence Koga wrote:
> Hello, This is what happened. I installed Mandrake 7.0, running dual boot
> with Win95. After the install of Mandrake 7.0, I boot with KDE. I can
> boot and run KDE as XWindow. I can sign up as root, everything seems to
> work. My cd-rom cannot be opened.
>
> When I click on the cd-rom icon, I get an error message that the device
> cannot be opened.
>
> When Linux is loading the cd-rom is found as "hdd". I checked the
> /etc/fstab file and it is mounted, iso=9660. I even tried at boot "Linux
> hdd=cdrom"
>
> When I boot in Win95 the cd is present and usable.
>
> What to do? How do I get my cd back and working?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Please contact me if you wish to discuss this further.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lawrence M. Koga
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Lawrence;
What's your "/var/log/dmesg" say. It displays what linux thinks you have
attached to your system.
Bruce :-)
