From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:35:00 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030403123500.GA749@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi all, Shortly after recompiling my kernel (ignoring numerous warnings and errors therein), 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? 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