Boot problems

linusfreak · 11-22-2005, 06:09 PM

When I boot redhat 9 this comes up during the initial boot before you can login.

Nov 22 19:04:17 localhost updfstab: cannot stat /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory
Nov 22 19:04:23 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
Nov 22 19:04:17 localhost kudzu: Updating /etc/fstab failed

what is up with this?

Please Help

emanresu · 11-23-2005, 10:50 AM

check and makesure you have /dev/cdrom by doing this

Code:

ls -l /dev/cdrom

sometimes it may be /dev/cdrom0 or even /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. search for it. and then update your /etc/fstab with the correct path.

linusfreak · 11-23-2005, 04:19 PM

It does not exist in any of those directoires. It apperas to just be missing. How do I fix this

emanresu · 11-23-2005, 04:54 PM

describe your machine first. How many hard drives? How many optical drives? Is your cd-rom an IDE? In many cases, /dev/cdrom is merely a symbolic link to the following devices:

/dev/hd?, where ? is a letter [commonly c or d], or
/dev/sr? or /dev/scd?, where ? is a number.

then you can simply create a symbolic link to it by doing this:

Code:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

this is assuming that your optical device is /dev/hdc, change it accordingly.

linusfreak · 11-25-2005, 09:29 AM

I have one hard drive partioned into two so I can dual boot with Windows XP. I don't know what an optical drive is, but I have one cd drive and a dvd burner, and both are IDE. The funny thing is though that I cn use the cd drive.

I'll try that though.

dive · 11-25-2005, 09:55 AM

Hi, can you post the contents of your /ets/fstab?