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From:	Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: 2008 minimal install hangs mounting /dev/hda2 looking for CD
Date:	Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:25:18
Message-Id:	`g8p6j4$vm7$1@ger.gmane.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] 2008 minimal install hangs mounting /dev/hda2 looking for CD by Grant Edwards

1	On 2008-08-23, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
2	> How do I tell the minimal install where the CDROM is?
3	>
4	> It apparently goes out trying to mount anything and everything
5	> looking for the CD, and the first time it finds something that
6	> isn't a valid filesystem, it hangs. First it hung trying to
7	> mount hda1 (an empty partittion).
8	>
9	> So, I booted Knoppix and created filesystems and a swap
10	> partition on hda. Now, when it gets to hda2 (the swap
11	> partition), it hangs trying to mount that.
12	>
13	> Since when could hda1 or hda2 be a CDROM?
14
15	Never mind. If you wait several minutes, it will eventually
16	give up trying to mount a non-filesystem and move on. Odd, it
17	didn't used to take 3-4 minutes for a mount to fail like that.