After installation off a cdrom device Redhat 7.2 does not seem to have the device installed. The problem does not arise in 7.1..... The hardware is amd k6 chip 128 mb ram The install has no errors but after install the cdrom will not mount manually or from the desk top link.... the error is mount dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.. the hardware browser shows no cdrom installed... Same set of disks are fine on other hardware components...(ie pentium) thanks willem
I have the same problem. I have k6-2, M577 motherboard, Ricoh 9120a DVD/CD-RW compo drive as secondary slave and I cant mount cdrom. It worked fine on RH 7.1 I think this is the same bug as 55218
My P233 MMX Gateway E1000 with 64Mb also has the same problem after having been upgraded from RH 7.1 /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device is reported when attempting to mount although the hardware is fine. dmesg shows the flolwing: hda: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive hdc: CD-ROM CDU4011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 20005650 sectors (10243 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63, UDMA(33) ide-floppy driver 0.97 Every time mounting the CD Rom is attempted, it fails, with the following message added to the end of Dmesg: hdc: driver not present ide-floppy driver 0.97
I have installed RH7.2 on three seperate machine Intel P-III 550 with one CD, Pentium 200 (I586), with one CD, and AMD K6-3/450 with one CD, one CD-RW. The i586 install is CLI only, no X, KDE or Gnmoe etc, and has the same problem as the others. Entering : mount /mnt/cdrom gets a response of 'invalid block device' issuing: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom I swapped out the CDROM drives with three other known functional CD Drives, and used various CD's known to be good, inclucing the original install media and I get error with each permutation. Reinstalling RH7.1 works perfectly on the same hardware. Bruce Meyer
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55071 ***