[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.0->8.1 upgrade problem

[Chris Merrill]

Matt Jezorek said:
> I am wondering if the initrd.img boots up the devfs I had problems with
> this before on mandrake and when i took at the append=" devfs=mount" option
> it worked fine. Sorry I dont know what else it might be in that case

Thanks, anyway.

Anyone else have any idea why I can't mount my cdrom?
(BTW, this is a Thinkpad T23).


> > > > 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
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