Can't mount CDROM: "Too many levels of symbolic links"

wycolorado · 08-10-2003, 11:44 PM

I tried mount /dev/cdrom but it gave me an error message:

"Too many levels of symbolic links"

What's wrong with it? Thanks.

wycolorado

DrOzz · 08-11-2003, 12:25 AM

do you have :
/dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/cdrom by anychance
p.s. no that is not a misprint

MasterC · 08-11-2003, 12:26 AM

Post up what you get from:
ls -l /dev/cdrom

And tell us what distro you are running.

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wycolorado · 08-13-2003, 01:37 AM

the resonse from ls -l /dev/cdrom is

/dev/cdrom -> cdrom

could you help me? Thanks a lot.

MasterC · 08-13-2003, 02:07 AM

Yeah, you've got it linked to itself.

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).

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wycolorado · 08-14-2003, 12:17 AM

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.

Yong

MasterC · 08-14-2003, 12:42 AM

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

HTH

Cool

wycolorado · 08-15-2003, 12:27 AM

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.

MasterC · 08-15-2003, 01:37 AM

Well my examples were just that, examples. Which drive is your primary CD device, the scsi or the IDE?

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wycolorado · 08-15-2003, 10:20 PM

how to tell the primary cd device in linux? Thanks for all your help.

MasterC · 08-15-2003, 11:56 PM

It's actually on the drive itself, it's jumpered to Master/Slave and the Channel it's on on the IDE is either Primary or Secondary.

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