Re: mount: Too many levels of symbolic links
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You are right, it should not link to itself.
Instead it should link to /dev/hdb or whatever device your cdrom is on.
To find out which device your cdrom is on, look in /var/log/kern.log. You
should be able to find a line containing something like:
kernel: hdb: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-114, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
kernel: hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
^^^
FJP
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?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ivan.
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