On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:49:06AM +1000, John Nicholls wrote: > I have a second-hand computer with a recently-installed CD-ROM drive > that I have given little or no use. I can mount it using a full mount > command, namely mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom, and ls works. > However just entering mount /cdrom gives the error message > mount: Too many levels of symbolic links. *snip* > fstab looks OK. I suspect the CD-ROM drive is faulty. Any suggestions?
What does your fstab look like? Is it using the /dev/cdrom device to mount the drive? Most distributions create a /dev/cdrom entry, which is just a symlink to the actual device. The error sounds like the symlink is broken. 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' will tell you where the link is going, and it should look something like: peter@elmo:~$ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 30 12:14 /dev/cdrom -> hdc To fix it, remove it and use the ln command to create a new link. Cheers, -- Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
