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I have what I hope will be a simple problem for the experts.
I recently had to reinstall RedHat 7.2. Upon completion of the installation, I realized that I could not mount the CDROM.
So, I re-installed again...with the same results.
I get the error message:
/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.
I have tried from the command prompt, KDE, and Gnome.
fstab lists the cdrom.
In KDE, the cdrom is listed in the block device file.
Using the same computer, (with a removable harddrive bay), I dusted off the windows harddrive, fired it up, and there was the CDROM no problems.
Prior to my re-installation of 7.2, I had no problems with the CDROM.
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