From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device? Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:45:16 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030404044516.GA866@localhost.localdomain> References: <20030403123500.GA749@localhost.localdomain> <5.1.0.14.1.20030403082113.01e99628@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030403082113.01e99628@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:33:04AM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: > The most likely cause is that you omitted some kernel > driver needed to access the device when you recompiled > your kernel. Ray, that was it exactly. I did indeed somehow manage to leave out support for my CD-ROM drive during the creation of the kernel configuration file. I guess this just goes to show that we have to be very careful when doing that. The option I think I left out by mistake was ``ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support ---> IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices ---> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support''. Anyway, I recompiled again, making doubly sure that everything was in order this time. I had previously gone to the CDROM-HOWTO, as Richard suggested, and decided that recompilation was the first thing to do. Barring a few hitches, I got the new kernel working, and now I've got CD-ROM support as well. Thanks, everybody! 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