I've been trying to solve a mount problem for some days now, and I've realized that I can't do it without any help from someone who knows linux and slackware better than me.

When I'm trying to mount my cdrom, I recieve "mount: Too many symbolic links" back. I've checked /dev/cdrom up and it's symlinked to itself, which is a bit of a problem as I don't know where to point it so it'll work properly. And I figured that my problem must be in that symlink.

So, what can I do to fix this problem? My line in /etc/fstab is:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,umask=0222,ro 0 0

Hi,

/dev/cdrom should _not_ be linked to itself, but to the device that represents the cdrom.

Don't know if you emulate scsi or use an ide device. dmesg | grep CD should give you that info, sr0 being scsi, hdX being ide.

/dev/cdrom should be linked to /dev/sr0 (when emulating scsi) or /dev/hdX (X being c,d or whatever your cdrom is attached to).

Take a look here too:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/

Hope this gets you going again.

root@sarah:/dev# dmesg | grep CD
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-224B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
root@sarah:/dev#

I've tried symlink it to /dev/hdc with "ln -s /dev/hdc cdrom", but then I recieved "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems" instead of the previous message when I type "mount /mnt/cdrom".

EDIT: I don't know if it's related to this in a way that I can solve my problem, but it work perfectly fine if I use "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" when trying to mount.

Hi,

Looks like this is a cdrom and dvd player, your fstab line should be different:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users,umask=0222,ro 0 0

A dvd has a different fs then the cdrom does.

Also: Did you set/unset the correct options in the kernel and recompile?

This link could help you setting up cd/dvd (you need the IDE CD-writer section)

http://www.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/b...riteutils.html

The kernel parameters for your DVD should be something like this:

Block devices
Packet writing on CD/DVD media: Y or M
File Systems
UDF filesystems support (read only): Y
UDF write support (DANGEROUS) Y <== ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE A DVD R/W!)

Hope this isn't too complicated, you don't state your level of experience. If this is going to be your first kernel compile, make sure you read the howto's and on-line info (probably available from linuxquestions as well).

If you need help with that: Just ask.

edit
You gave some extra info while I was typing, guess the kernel compile part is ok Don't know about the DVD part....

People use to say that everything isn't what it looks like. I don't have a DVD-player or recorder.

About those two pages you've linked to. I can't find anything that help me solve the real problem with mount (read 1st and 3rd message).

What happens if you edit /etc/fstab so that it reads as follows:

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,umask=0222,ro 0 0

I don't think it's a symlink problem, but instead that your fstab file doesn't start from the right device (/dev/hdc).

Hi,

Strange, dmesg does identify it as a cdrom dvd player.... But you know best what is (and isn't) installed/possibel.

The links a gave are for setting up cd/dvd including kernel parameters. You edited your post while I was typing a reply. Ignore the URL's, they won't solve your (mount) problem. The links are usefull if you want to burn cd's, you need scsi emulations for that.

Spoke to a friend of mine and he showed me his lines in /etc/fstab. It seems like the only problem was "umask=0222". When I removed that, it worked perfectly fine with mounting cdrom. Maybe umask isn't needed on cdrom.

Thanks for all the help anyway.