Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom?
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 02:49:13
Message-Id: 003901c60834$4b161da0$0200a8c0@donahues.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom? by Peter Martin
1 run df -h again and see if you have
2 udev and shm listed in addition to /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda3
3 ----- Original Message -----
4 From: "Peter Martin" <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
5 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
6 Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 8:58 PM
7 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom?
8
9
10 >
11 >
12 > Drake Donahue wrote:
13 >
14 >>
15 >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Martin" <pjmartin@×××××.ca>
16 >> To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
17 >> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 6:03 PM
18 >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom?
19 >>
20 >>
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >>> Drake Donahue wrote:
24 >>>
25 >>>> <snipping>
26 >>>>
27 >>>>> etc/fstab has;
28 >>>>> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
29 >>>>
30 >>>> <snipping>
31 >>>> as Peter Humphrey correctly pointed out,
32 >>>>
33 >>>>> That no longer works here; /dev/hdc works though.
34 >>>>
35 >>>>
36 >>>> so change to:
37 >>>> dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
38 >>>
39 >>
40 >> i trust you caught my typo - missing / in
41 >
42 > yes
43 >
44 >>
45 >> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
46 >>
47 >> I just tried this (with out rebooting) and the fault is still the
48 >> same, but now 'mount' is reporting the fault is with /dev/hdc instead
49 >> of /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
50 >>
51 >>>
52 >> The error now is:
53 >> "Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too
54 >> many mounted file systems."
55 >> ?
56 >
57 > yes
58 >
59 >> The cd is an ide/ata type not scsi or usb or sata or 1394 or ?
60 >
61 > I believe your right. it is ide.
62 >
63 >>
64 >> reboot not needed here, might try auto vice iso9660,(which should
65 >> change nothing)
66 >>
67 >> it looks like you need to: (section 7.c)
68 >> cd /usr/src/linux
69 >> make menuconfig
70 >> and take a hard look at device drivers and file systems
71 >
72 > I spent some time this after noon line by line going through "make
73 > menueconfig'
74 >
75 >>
76 >> if lspci will run, any thing it has to say about the cd would be
77 >> useful, it is part of the package pciutils
78 >>
79 > I didn't see anything conciquential in lspci, but the first part
80 > scrolled off the screen.
81 >
82 > I occures to me that there may be a relationship with my boot time
83 > problem. In the beginning when I booted off the disk the unit would hang
84 > trying to auto configer the hardware. So at the boot prompt I put;
85 > gentoo nodetect
86 > I assumed that the problem was because I have 3 TV tuner cards (2
87 > different makes) plugged in, and don't have the driver software yet.
88 > Maybe I should remove the cards and do a reboot from CD?
89 >
90 >>>
91 >>>>
92 >>>>
93 >>>> and all should be well
94 >>>
95 >>>
96 >>>
97 >>> --
98 >>> gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
99 >>>
100 >>>
101 >>
102 >
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105 >
106 >
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't mount cdrom? Peter Martin <pjmartin@×××××.ca>