Bug 7647

Summary: Cannot mount floppy or cdrom
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bobby Moore <bobby.moore>
Component: mountAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Version: 6.1CC: rhw
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Description Bobby Moore 1999-12-07 04:36:57 UTC
The cdrom won't mount.

i/p: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
o/p: mount: you must specify the filesystem type

i/p: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660
o/p: mount: /dev/cdrom has wrong major or minor number

Mounting worked using Red Hat 5.2 and 6.0. It worked on installs of Red Hat
6.1. The machine it's not working on was a machine that was upgraded from
6.0.

The same is true for the floppy.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-12-08 15:11:59 UTC
Looks like your /dev tree got messed up.
Make sure /dev/cdrom is a link to the actual drive (usually /dev/hdc (IDE) or
/dev/sr0 (SCSI)).

Comment 2 Riley H Williams 1999-12-12 16:40:59 UTC
Actually, this looks like a buglet I've had a few times on my system, where the
reported error message is always the one displayed. If so, then you have the
filetype in /etc/fstab set to "auto" and iso9660 compiled as a module and NOT
loaded when you issue the command.

I've had the same problem with /dev/fd0 set to "auto" and vfat compiled modular
- I don't have msdos compiled in at all. For some reason, even if one specifies
the filesystem type, the kernel makes no attempt to load the module in this
case.