Arthur S. Alexion on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:30:48 -0400 |
On Monday 10 June 2002 09:40 am, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:35:06AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > While I was able to install from the cd, I am now having trouble > > mounting it. I keep getting the message "/dev/cdrom is not a valid > > block device". > > /dev/cdrom is almost definitely a sym link pointing to the wrong > device. > > Where does dmesg tell you your cdrom was detected? I'm really new at this. I can't recognize a reference in dmesg. Here is the output: Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 17:21:28 EDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 12288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 8192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hde3 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 74.540 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 148.68 BogoMIPS Memory: 45436k/49152k available (1280k kernel code, 3068k reserved, 90k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. Intel old style machine check architecture supported. Intel old style machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 04 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: none PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd121, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: checksum for device 1 is not valid (0x2c) isapnp: Card 'U.S. Robotics Inc., Sportster Winmodem 28.8' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d block: queued sectors max/low 30093kB/10031kB, 128 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38 PIIX: chipset revision 2 PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX: chipset revision 2 PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff90-0xff97, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff98-0xff9f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 PDC20267: chipset revision 2 PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfe80-0xfe87, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfe88-0xfe8f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hda: WDC AC31000H, ATA DISK drive hdb: LTN526D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hde: Maxtor 5T040H4, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xfff0-0xfff7,0xffe6 on irq 10 hda: 2116800 sectors (1084 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=525/64/63, DMA hde: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=79408/16/63, UDMA(100) ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdc: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 Partition check: hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x65 { DriveReady DeviceFault CorrectedError Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success hda1 hdc: hdc4 hde: [PTBL] [4982/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 > hde3 hde4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 ide-floppy driver 0.97 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 318k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed Adding Swap: 96380k swap-space (priority -1) ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 hdc: hdc4 ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 hdc: hdc4 EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide2(33,3), internal journal ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 hdc: hdc4 ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 hdc: hdc4 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 820C ip_conntrack (384 buckets, 3072 max) ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff40, IRQ 9, 00:20:18:2F:E7:8E. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 820C lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdb: driver not present ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key = 5, asc = 24, ascq = 0 hdc: hdc4 ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff40, IRQ 9, 00:20:18:2F:E7:8E. ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff40, IRQ 9, 00:20:18:2F:E7:8E. Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.13 detected OK (220) YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... SB 4.13 detected OK (220) YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdb: driver not present ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdb: driver not present ide-floppy driver 0.97 hdb: driver not present > > What's /dev/cdrom pointing at? There is no /dev/cdrom. the closest block devices in /dev/ are cdu31a, cdu535, cm205cd & cm206cd. There are 1500+ entries in /dev/. Is there something else I should scan for? -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. 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