Re: Unable to mount cd-rom
Silly question but have you tried many diffrent cd's? Is it a burned cd it is
locking up on? Or will it lock up on any cd? You can try changing it to auto
instead of iso9660 and see if that helps any.
Sam Varghese wrote:
> I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after
> this I find that I cannot mount my cd-rom.
>
> My /etc/fstab reads as under:
>
> /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> 1
> /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0
> 0
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 2
> /dev/sr0 /cdburner iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> Other relevant info:
>
> sammo:~# ls -la /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 9 18:58 /dev/cdrom ->
> hdc
>
> sammo:~# ls -la /dev/hdc
> brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Jul 6 2000 /dev/hdc
>
> I can play an audio cd using the cd-rom in question.
>
> When I try to mount a cd, the whole machine freezes up. I have to
> reset and then fsck the root partition before I can use it.
>
> Just to test out the cd-rom itself, I installed Mandrake on another
> partition and checked that there is nothing wrong with it.
>
> I tried deleting and recreating the device file but that did not make
> any difference.
>
> Any hints to get out of this would be appreciated.
>
> Sam
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