[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.0->8.1 upgrade problem

[Matt Jezorek]

This is a very easy fix!!!!

go into /etc/lilo.conf
and remove devfs=mount from the append line and reboot


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Merrill" <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Mandrake 8.0->8.1 upgrade problem


> My upgrade did not go as well as I had initially hoped...I can no
> longer mount my CDROM...this is what I get:
>
>   [root at rx8 chris]# mount /mnt/cdrom
>   mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
>   [root at rx8 chris]# mount /dev/cdrom
>   mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
>
> So, I went to find if the directory did or did not exist:
>
>   [root at rx8 chris]# cd /dev
>   [root at rx8 dev]# ls -l cd*
>   lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           16 Oct 30 08:17 cdrom ->
../cdroms/cdrom0
>   lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           13 Oct 30 03:17 cdrom1 ->
cdroms/cdrom1
>
>   cdroms:
>   total 0
>   lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           33 Dec 31  1969 cdrom1 ->
../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
>
> Those links look to be intact (although I have no idea what I'm looking
at), so
> I followed the links a little farther and found:
>
>   [root at rx8 lun0]# cd /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0
>   [root at rx8 lun0]# ls -l
>   total 0
>   brw-------    1 chris    cdrom     22,   0 Oct 30 08:13 cd
>
> Is this what I should see?
> Anybody know what I should do next?  Obviously, having a working
> CDROM is kinda important to me...
>
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> Chris Merrill
> cmerrill at nc.rr.com
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