Re: mount: Too many levels of symbolic links
On Thursday 17 April 2003 15:09, oliveira@mit.edu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> not sure if my last message went through... I don't think so. As you can
> tell I'm a newbie... I have woody installed on my sony vaio and it works
> great, but I can't access my cdrom. I get the following message if I try
> to mount it:
>
> brasilia# mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: Too many levels of symbolic links
>
> To see what was going on I:
>
> brasilia# ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 15 21:19 /dev/cdrom ->
> /dev/cdrom
>
> So it looks to me that it is linked to itself? Is that right? How do I
> fix this?
root@box:~# rm /dev/cdrom
root@box:~# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
Is this a Sony Vaio of the PCG-FX series? Then you might be interested in the
following site:
http://www.gaugusch.at/vaio/
It will help you getting your cd-writer and modem running.
hth
joerg
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