From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Description of problem: CDROM is not mountable after the install and reboot process is completed. All other devices are mountable. This CDROM drive is detected and mountable with Red Hat 7.1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. CDROM used to boot and install Red Hat 7.2 2. Reboot 3. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Actual Results: This error message is returned to the console mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device Expected Results: This message should be returned to the console and the CDROM is then mounted and usable: mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only Additional info: This is from the symbolic link in the /dev directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 14 22:09 cdrom -> /dev/hdd The /etc/fstab file contains this line /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 This information is from the boot process ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: WDC AC33200L, ATA DISK drive hdd: MATSHITA CR-574, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
/dev/cdrom apparently isn't created correctly in your setup, reassigning.
Run depmod post-install... a run of it during the installer didn't catch the different symbols. (also, upgrade to the errata kernel as installing it will make this be magically fixed as a side effect :) This is fixed in CVS
Thankyou very much, depmod has fixed the problem and now the cdrom is usable. Thankyou. Two final questions; What is the errata kernel? -- also, upgrade to the errata kernel as installing it will make this be magically fixed as a side effect And what is CVS? Thank you.