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Old 05-05-2009, 02:24 PM   #1
chriselwell
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cdrom was working, not reading any disc now


cdrom was working fine, now it wont read any disc. not really sure what happened. only thing i did was tried to install cd creator software i think it was ke3. wondering if anyone has any ideas on what is wrong.

$df command shows
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
151656620 8909528 135043336 7% /
/dev/sda1 194442 20756 163647 12% /boot
tmpfs 483872 560 483312 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 312484288 90334112 222150176 29% /media/My Book

$mount shows
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/Chris/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=Chris)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Book type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500)
 
Old 05-05-2009, 06:04 PM   #2
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cdrom working now

found out it was my grub installer that was bad, used rescue disc mode and grub-install /dev/sda and works great again
 
  


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