On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:28:16 -0700 "Daniel WELLS" <DanW@mhtn.com> wrote: > After I installed RH 8 I was very impressed. Unfortunately, things > have not stayed rosy. Sound was the first thing to stop working, now > whenever I reboot the computer I have to jump through all sorts of > hoops to be able to mount a CD. > > With not modification the message I get is something like: > > "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or > too many mounted filesystems (could this be the IDE device where you > in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)" > > This usually involves editing the" fstab" file (which get overwritten > on reboot) from: > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > to > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > I then have to deal with the link to the device. On checking I found > that "/dev/cdrom" was pointing to "/dev/hdc". This is reset each time > I reboot so I have to delete the old link and created a new link > "dev/cdrom" pointing to "/dev/scd0". > > I can then mount the CD ROM. What am I missing? Are there some > configuration settings that need to be changed? > > Any help in pointing me in the right direction will be deeply > appreciated. > > Thanks! As root, run ntsysv (or learn how to use chkconfig, or run setup and set system services from there [basically, it runs ntsysv]) and turn kudzu off. Set everything in fstab and make sure the symlink is correct, or ignore the symlink and make sure fstab points to the actual device instead of the symlink (i.e. points to /dev/scd0, not /dev/cdrom). It will now survive a reboot. You could even take the "kudzu" part out of the fstab entry. But kudzu sometimes has a mind of its own and will take it over anyway, or it will add another entry with /dev/cdrom as the target. -- Well, what was the ham cured OF? -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
