Hi,

This seems like a basic issue, but I have read the HOWTO, searched
through newsgroup archives, etc, and I cant seem to figure it out.
Basically when I mount my cdrom, I get "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a
valid block device". I do have a CD in there, and it works fine in
windows 2000. Do I need a different driver, and where should I look
for it? On the toshiba website, there is no mention of linux, but I
would think a standard CD driver would work: (from toshiba.com: ATAPI
CD-ROM and DVD Drivers: Toshiba's CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives do not
require any unique device drivers for Windows '95/'98/2000/NT.) Here
is a dump of some info, thanks for your time!

Chris

ps. I installed Linux via CD...

[root@localhost /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
[root@localhost /root]# more /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda8 swap swap
defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/windows auto noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win98 auto user,rw 0 0



/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

[root@localhost /root]#


- run this: "dmesg | grep hdc" (since my cdrom is on hdc)

Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 hdc=ide-scsi, Video=atyfb:1024x768,
font=sun12x22
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi,
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1108-0x110f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: driver not present
hdc: driver not present

- Checking /var/log/boot.log

Oct 4 22:17:13 localhost mount: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device
Oct 4 22:17:31 localhost mount: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device

- check lsmod
[root@localhost linux]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
vmnet 18320 3
vmmon 18032 0 (unused)
autofs 11264 1 (autoclean)
ds 7280 1
yenta_socket 11440 1
pcmcia_core 43072 0 [ds yenta_socket]
sis900 11264 1 (autoclean)
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 8352 0
scsi_mod 95104 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 26848 0
cdrom 27232 0 [ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9392 1 (autoclean)
fat 32672 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
usb-ohci 17104 0 (unused)
usbcore 49664 1 [usb-ohci]

[root@localhost linux]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001
i686 unknown
[root@localhost linux]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@...) (gcc version 2.96
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001

[root@localhost linux]#
[root@localhost linux]# cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
29 fb
36 netlink
119 vmnet
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
180 usb
254 pcmcia

Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
9 md
22 ide1
[root@localhost cdrom]# cat /proc/ioports | grep cd
[root@localhost cdrom]# more /proc/filesystems
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev shm
nodev pipefs
nodev proc
ext2
iso9660
nodev devpts
nodev usbdevfs
vfat
nodev autofs