mount cdrom fails

j-ray · 01-29-2002, 03:55 AM

Hi! For a while I was running Linux and everything was working fine. Then all of a sudden the cdrom disappeared and I can´t mount it again. I tried as root "mount iso9660 /dev/cdrom mnt/cdrom" and got the answer "no mountpoint for cdrom". Running SuSE you can normally configure these hardware parts via YaST, an automatic setup-tool but that doesn´t function either.
Any help much apreciated! J.

acid_kewpie · 01-29-2002, 05:18 AM

well, that presumably means that the /mnt/cdrom directory just doesn't exist.

you are aware of the need for /mnt and not mnt as you typed? and you'd need -t before iso9660

dorward · 01-29-2002, 07:51 AM

Just a point - "mnt/cdrom" is not the same as "/mnt/cdrom" unless you are in "/"

Thymox · 01-29-2002, 11:31 AM

The mountpoint must also exist prior to the command being issued. You should move into the /mnt directory and ensure that there is a subdir called cdrom. If there is not, it won't matter how much configuring you do, you won't be able to mount the cdrom drive, so you should create it.

If once you've done this, you should consider editiing your /etc/fstab file. There are plenty of threads on this here, so have a peek around.

j-ray · 01-29-2002, 01:25 PM

...the /mnt directory is completely empty! I guess I have to look for what it should contain. Thanks a lot ! You helped me much.

dorward · 01-29-2002, 01:30 PM

Mount points are just directories.

mkdir /mnt/cdrom

Darkstar · 01-29-2002, 01:53 PM

Normally SUSE has a cdrom directory created at the root. You could then do a mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /cdrom or something similiar to that.

j-ray · 01-29-2002, 04:52 PM

oh my - I tried out so many things and read in a book about SuSE distro that ususally: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom is the right command. Unfortunately it returns: /DEV/CDROM IS NOT A VALID BLOCKORIENTATED DEVICE. Tommorrow I'll take a closer look at how to edit /etc/fstab. Maybe the bug is in there... Thanks a lot again!

Darkstar · 01-30-2002, 08:40 AM

I've had this happen before myself with Redhat. Try loading the module by doing a insmod cdrom then try to mount the cdrom. See if that works.

acid_kewpie · 01-30-2002, 08:54 AM

i wouldn't be worried about /dev/cdrom being right or not, make sure it works by just using the hdX device directly.

j-ray · 01-30-2002, 12:40 PM

wow - just got it going! i moved it to hdc, now i can mount it "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc/ cdrom, open directory /media/cdrom and the stoopid thing starts wheeling - great - thank you very much, again! Cheers Jens