From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:44:32 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <03040315443201.01175@unix.pa3gcu> References: <20030403123500.GA749@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030403123500.GA749@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Amin , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:35, Amin wrote: > Hi all, > > Shortly after recompiling my kernel (ignoring numerous > warnings and errors therein), If you saw an "error" then your compile woul;d have stopped period, warnings on the otherhand do NOT stop a compile, i expect you think a warning is the same as an error however this is not the case when compiling a program or a kernel. > I tried to mount my CD drive in the normal way: > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > But I'm getting a ``mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block > device''. Does anyone have any idea why this is appearing? You have forgotten to include cdrom support as per the CDROM-HOWTO. Or simply no iso9660 or cdrom support in your kernel or compiled as modules. I cannot say more as you did not say if the device is a SCSI device IDE or whatever. > > Thanks, > Yawar Amin > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs