Danny Wheeler wrote:
> I gotta tell you , I received about a half dozen replies on this so far,
all
> of them telling me things I already knew. Your suggestion for a depmod -ae
> is the one that I least expected to be helpful, and also the only one that
> worked, thank you. I even checked the archives on this and each thread I
> traced (I did not trace them all) dead ended with no meaningful help, just
> the advice on the structure of the mount command and the fact that the
> device could have many different names.
> Thanks again, Danny Wheeler
That's funny, I've been giving this answer for at least a month. It is a
known
problem with the RH7.2 install.
I haven't found it on the RH site, but it is in Bugzilla somewhere.
Glad it worked for you.
Dennis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis K Grow" <dkgrow@mindspring.com>
> To: <redhat-install-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: RH 7.2 and cdrom drives
>
> > Danny Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > > I just installed RH 7.2 on a pc that has in the past run rh 7.0
and
> > > 6.0 and the cdrom has always worked flawlessly. But with 7.2 I
cannot
> > > get the cdrom(s) to mount. The machine has two cd drives now, a
> > > regular cdrom and a HP writer. But even going back to just one
cdrom
> > > drive none of the command variations will mount it. On boot it
shows
> > > the cdrom associated with hdc, hdc, hdd depending on how many I
have
> > > hooked up at the time and the jumper configuration. Automounter:
shows
> > > "no mount points defined" at boot. The hardware browser
under x calls
> > > these scd0 and sdc1 but these device names along with hdx and
cdrom
> > > will not work for mounting either. Any thoughts or suggestions
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > as root,
> > depmod -ae
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dennis K. Grow
> > RedHat 7.2 Kernel: 2.4.13 KDE: 2.2-10 ALSA: 0.5.11
> > 10:45am up 18 min, 5 users, load average: 2.03, 1.81, 1.12
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
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Dennis K. Grow
RedHat 7.2 Kernel: 2.4.13 KDE: 2.2-10 ALSA: 0.5.11
1:30pm up 3:03, 5 users, load average: 1.10, 1.11, 1.34
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