On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, José Nuno Coelho Sanarra Pires wrote:
>
> I have a PLEXTOR CD-R which seems to be correctly identified by the
> hardware browser as a PLEXTOR CD-R PX-320A which used to perform well
> but not frequently (I believe it worked with FC2T1).
>
> Currently mount attempts by root give
>
> [root@a213-22-64-242 root]# mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
> /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc
>
> Line in /etc/fstab is
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 and was freshly included by kudzu.
>
> Failure happens both with
> kernel-2.6.4-1.281
> and
> kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
>
> This is a i386 FC2T2 system (I am not particularly fond of testing
> anaconda and burning CDs except for the occasional data backup so I got
> here all the way from RH9 using up2date / apt / yum and, hardly using CDs,
> not going through any kind of OS install and reading the list; I am
> mentioning this because lots of people on this list seem to be unaware of
> the possibility and become quite upset with failed CD boots for
> installation...).
[...]
For the record: this was auto inflicted. Removing ide-scsi from grub.conf
solved my problems. Bypassing anaconda also causes problems...
--
João Palhoto Matos
http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
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