/dev/cdrom problems with Fedora Core on Dell Inspiron 1100
Hello everyone!
I have a brain buster for someone out there. I think I may have deleted my /dev/cdrom and therefore I am unable to use my CDrom drive. I was trying to delete some symlinks but I think I accidently deleted /dev/cdrom and the /dev/scd0. Does anyone have any suggestions how I can either recover it or create a new /dev/cdrom? This is what I am getting when I looks it under my terminal. [chris@localhost chris]$ su - > Password: > [root@localhost root]# mount /dev/cdrom > mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist And here is what I did earlier... root@localhost chris]# mount /mnt/cdrom > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, > > > or too many mounted file systems > > > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use > > > ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) > > > [root@localhost chris]# vi /etc/fstab > > > [root@localhost chris]# ln -s /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > > ln: `/mnt/cdrom/cdrom': File exists > > > [root@localhost chris]# ln -s /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom > > > root@localhost chris]# mount /dev/cdrom > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, > > > or too many mounted file systems > > > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use > > > ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) > > > [root@localhost chris]# mount /mnt/cdrom > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, > > > or too many mounted file systems > > > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use > > > ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) > > > [root@localhost chris]# ln -s /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > > ln: `/mnt/cdrom/cdrom': File exists > > > [root@localhost chris]# cd /mnt > > > [root@localhost mnt]# ls > > > camera cdrom > > > [root@localhost mnt]# cd /cdrom > > > bash: cd: /cdrom: No such file or directory > > > [root@localhost mnt]# ls > > > camera cdrom > > > [root@localhost mnt]# cd cdrom > > > [root@localhost cdrom]# ls > > > cdrom hda > > > [root@localhost cdrom]# cdrom > > > bash: cdrom: command not found > > > [root@localhost cdrom]# mount cdrom > > > mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab But then as I was saying earlier I did rm /dev/cdrom and rm /dev/hda. Please someone help. Also I am going to be upgrading to Fedora Core 2.0 in about a week do you think that this will solve my problems and I shouldn't worry to much about this? Initially when I first installed Fedora Core 1.0 I had no problems at all with my cdrom. Will this happen when I install 2.0? Thanks, Chris |
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Where is your CD drive connected? Was it /dev/hda, Are you using ide-scsi emulation? i.e /dev/scd0 The slightly painless method: Look at /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file if it exists then look for an entry for your CDROM drive. Delete the entry, save the file and either run kudzu or reboot the PC. If that doesn't work we can recreate the device files using the mknod command. BTW device files do not take up much disk space. Was there a reason for deleting the symlinks? |
Hi...thanks for the help! I check out /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and this is what I got
class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: unknown desc: "Intel Corp.|82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 2560 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 0 pcifn: 0 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: i810_rng desc: "Intel Corp.|82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 244e subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 1e pcifn: 0 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: i810-tco desc: "Intel Corp.|82801DB LPC Interface Controller" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 24c0 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 1f pcifn: 0 I don't see anything that resembles a cdrom entry. Yes I believe my cdrom is at /dev/hda and i think i am using an emulator at /dev/scd0. the reason I started deleting symlinks is because I mount my cdrom at /mnt/cdrom and it was completely messed up. I look forward to all the help that you can give me! And if you could explain everything in the most lucid manner possible that would be great. I am a newbie with linux (January 2004). thanks for all the help and also if when I upgrade fedora core 1.0 to 2.0 this problem will be fixed we don't have to worry about it too much. thanks again, chris |
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