/dev/cdrom not a valid block device---Iam stuck. Pls help.

**rhonneil** · 10-17-2003, 11:32 AM

Hi geeks out there hope you can help me.

I am using RH9.0 with a MONOLITHIC KERNEL-2.4.22. I am running in a text
mode.

I have a really big, big problem--cant mount my cdrom.

I been in many mailing list but cant find answer that my address my
concerns.

The problem only arises when I compiled to the latest kernel. I remember
that I even included cdrom support for my system.

My problem is this everytime i mount my CDROM
#mount /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdrom not a valid block device

My /etc/fstab looks like this:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro,unhide 0 0

#cat /proc/devices
2 fd
3 ide0
7 loop
9 md
22 ide1

#cat /proc/filesystems
iso9660

#ls -l /dev/cdrom
/dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

#ls /dev/cdrom
/dev/cdrom

I also tried providing the entries in my grub.conf
hdd=scsi-ide

But nothing seem to bring good news.

And Iam sure my cdrom is working. Therefore, hardware issue is should
not be an issue.

I also checked this but nothing seems to be working. Maybe because it is applicable to a MODULARIZED KERNEL.

[url=http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/pet.cgi?SUBMIT=Display&id=8]IDE CDRW[/i]

I even replace my CDRW with a CDROM. But no good news = (

Hope you can help me. Please

Rhonneil

**deepfreeze** · 10-17-2003, 12:27 PM

[quote author=rhonneil link=board=1;threadid=7959;start=0#msg72732 date=1066390373]
I also tried providing the entries in my grub.conf
hdd=scsi-ide
[/quote]

I'm pretty sure it should look be "ide-scsi" instead of "scsi-ide".

Also, are you trying to mount an audio cd? If that's true, then I don't think you can. I seem to remember reading something that audio cd's don't have filesystems, so you can't really mount them. But can you put an audio cd in your drive and play it? I know that when I put an audio cd in my drive and try to mount it, I get a similar "error" but can still listen to it via xmms or whatever you're using.