On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 05:23:09PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> Now I can't even get to mount at all :-( >> >> After I request Device->Insert Guest Additions ISO, it won't >> automatically mount (of course). >> so I try manually mounting it: >> >> sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom/ >> mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660' > > Hmm, my first guess is that your system isn't autoloading the isofs > module for some reason. That isn't a virtualbox issue, it has got to > be something specific to your guest setup.
Thank you for continuing to assist even though this is not a VirtualBox issue at this point. > When you do lsmod, does > isofs show up in the output? No, it does not. > If you modprobe isofs, What would be the syntax to do that? Looking at modprobe man page again... > can you then mount > the guest additions? If yes, that explains why you couldn't mount it > before, but it still doesn't explain why your guest didn't just > autoload that module when you tried to mount the cdrom. Now that I > think of it, maybe none of the vbox modules on your guest are getting > autoloaded, even though they're there. What does this give you: > cd /lib/modules/`uname -r` > find . -name vbox* sudo find /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/ -name \*vbox\* /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/misc/vboxsf.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/misc/vboxguest.ko /lib/modules/3.13.0-39-generic/misc/vboxvideo.ko > Greg Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
