Can't mount CDROM: "Too many levels of symbolic links"
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What is your drive setup? What I mean is, are your cdrom(s) on the secondary ide channel, and which one is slave and which is master? And which do you use as your primary cdrom device (if you have 2).
I have two CD-ROMs. One is IDE cd-rom, connected with slave IDE bus. Another one is SCSI cd-rom. Do you mean my linux already set up the links? Thanks.
Assuming you want to use your scsi one as your primary drive you'll want to type (as root into a terminal):
ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
As /dev/cdrom is nothing more than a link to an actual device.
If you wanted the IDE cdrom:
ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
thanks for your help. I did what you told me and tried mount /dev/cdrom again but it gave me an error message:
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
and I checked my /etc/fstab and it is listed as:
/dev/hdb2 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
could you help me out of this? I am confused. Thanks.
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