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I have a Thinkpad X31 with Ultrabase III. I bought it second-hand and installed Fedora. I've just tried to install a new version and run into a strange problem.
The CDROM won't mount. When I tried to mount it manually, I found Fedora hadn't provided the device /dev/sr0. I cannot eject the disk. If I reboot, the BIOS doesn't find the disk (another problem?) and the computer hangs. The Thinkpad Wiki has no mention of similar prolems.
It seems I've lost my Ultrabay. Has anyone any suggestions?
Well, no! The Ultrabay is usable, but not for the most important bit: the CD drive. As it says, "Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus type methods", which is as clear as mud to me!
Last edited by DavidMcCann; 03-08-2011 at 11:12 AM.
I got looking around the net and it looks like that message is a harmless warning for the most part. Since you were able to eject it, have it gotten any further with it, or is it still unusable?
Thank you so much for your help, but I've been wasting your time: it was all my own fault
I was trying to install Salix from a live CD. What I'd forgotten was that I'd burnt the CD image on to a DVD. No wonder my poor old Thinkpad got in a tangle: DVDs are much too modern for it.
LOL nice! I've done that already in the past dude.... I know how it feels. Glad to hear it's all sorted out though. Mark your thread as solved, thanks!
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