RE: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?

[Michael Kahle <michael.kahle@scc-wi.com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kahle 
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:27 AM
To: Debian User List
Subject: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?


Hello.  I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel for my debian/unstable
machine.  I am using the unstable kernel-source package.  When booting my
computer now I get a strange error:
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.

Now I did some googling for the error and I found a myriad of solutions
related to this.  Among them, and things I've tried are:
Recompile the kernel to not include "Kernel automounter support"
Use the noauto option in fstab:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/cdrw    /cdrw    auto    ro, user, noauto    0    0
/dev/dvdrw    /dvdrw    auto    ro, user, noauto    0    0

There was also a suggestion that this could be an indication that the drive
is bad?  Could someone explain (or confirm) this?

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thank you.

Michael