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Thread ID: 41499	2004-01-13 06:30:00	Mounting CDROM in kernel 2.6	Jen C (20)	Press F1

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207093	2004-01-13 06:30:00	Hi all :) I have just discovered that I can no longer mount /dev/cdrom in kernel 2.6. I get this message: "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device". It is to do with the 2.6 kernel not using scsi anymore. My /dev/cdrom still links to dev/scd0 which is not terribly helpful. So I need to remove the symlink to the scd0 (and is that all?). Before I try this I thought I'd better run this past the linux guru's first. I have already removed in grub.conf the old reference to ide-scsi for the 2.6 kernel. Here are some details that show what the current setup is: [jennifer@origin dev]$ ls -l cd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 19:00 cdrom -> /dev/scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 15, 0 Sep 16 01:40 cdu31a brw-rw---- 1 root disk 24, 0 Sep 16 01:40 cdu535 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 3 16:10 cdwriter -> /dev/sg0 [jennifer@origin jennifer]$ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 So, can I just remove the cdrom symlink to the dev/scd0 and that will sort it all out? And how do I remove the link without stuffing up /dev/cdrom? Removing the /dev/cdrom and then creating a new /dev/cdrom seems a little too easy :) Many thanks Jen	Jen C (20)
207094	2004-01-13 09:49:00	You will need to replace the link to scd0 with a link to the ide device for you cdrom. It is probably /dev/hdc but you can use "dmesg | grep ROM" to check. Then create the new link (overwriting the previous one) with, "ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom".	bmason (508)
207095	2004-01-13 10:02:00	Excellent - that did the trick :D Thanks bmason :)	Jen C (20)
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