I recently just installed a RedHat 7.2 box with only the basics and Bind. When I try and mount my IDE cdrom with any of the following commands:

Mount /mnt/cdrom
Mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
Mount /dev/cdrom
mount /cd

I get this error.

"Mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"

I checked out /dev/cdrom and it looks like a link to /dev/hdc

I installed with this cdrom and also tried a seperate creative 52x Cdrom and the same error happend.

Any ideas on how to get this bad boy to mount?

Thanks for looking at this

Road

first of all look at your /etc/fstab file to see what device is your cd-rom and where its mount point, if the CD-rom is primary slave it is hdb, if secondary master hdc and secondary slave is hdd
try the following
mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdx /mnt/cdrom
substitute x with appropriate letter b, c or d ( I don't think you have your cd-rom as primary master, do you?)
make sure mount point exists ( /mnt/cdrom in this example), if it doesn't create it, become root and
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
or whatever you want to call it
and as root you can make a symbolic link /dev/cdrom
such

ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/cdrom
Again substitute the x with appropriate entry, if you are not sure which device is your cd-rom do as root

dmesg|less

and look for initialization of your drives somewhere in the begining.

this is a bug in 7.2 see this post for more info:http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=13940

That was it. Thanks for the help I never thought it would have been a bug since its usually me .

Thanks also NEO as your reply was very complete and written well!