Hi. I recently compiled the 2.6.10 kernel and after have some problems (it very hard to use linux when the keyboard isnt compiled in) it mostly works now. Howerver my current problem is that my cd drive doesnt work. When i put a cd in and right click the icon on the desktop and go mount it gives me this error, mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many file systems

I have made sure that the cd file system are compiled in properly and while it is loading linux it lists my cd drives as being found but then gives and error message about supermount fs not supported by kernel. I am running mandrake 10.1 and any help in getting this stumbling block out of the way which is stoping me using linux full time (i need something installed of cd which will allow me to install some other things and so on)

Thx

This appears to me that supermount is not supported by the kernel you compiled. Each distribution adds some of its own special functionality, in this case, Mandrake provides supermount which automates mounting removable media. Since you are not using a Mandrake kernel, you can change the settings for the CD-ROM drive in MCC [The Mandrake Control Center]:

Open MCC in the Mandrake menu system at System / Configuration / Configure your Computer.

Click on Mount Points in the menu bar to the left.

Click the CD-ROM icon in the main part of the window.

Select the Options radio button near the top left, then click the OK button near the bottom right.

Uncheck the supermount option, then click the OK button until you return to the main MCC window.

Next time you restart, you should not see any supermunt errors, and I think the CD-ROM should work ok.

H. Sry it took so long to reply but i have been busy with work. Any way i tried wut you said but supermount is all ready unticked. Any other ideas?

Thx

Your /etc/fstab file should have a line in that referrs to your cdrom drive. Using a mandrake kernel which includes supermount and after a fresh install this is one of the entries that begin with 'none'.

For a standard vanilla kernel from kernel.org that you have compilled this line should read like the others, i.e. Your cd rom device, where you want to mount it, the filesystem type, the filesystem options etc etc..

Using my own as an example, I have a CD-ROM drive at /dev/hdc (Secondary Master) and I want to mount it as /mnt/cdrom letting the system decide what the filesystem is. The entry in /etc/fstab is
Reading across the line.... /dev/hdc (the cd drive) gets mounted at /mnt cdrom and the filesystem is detedted automatically. It can be mounted and unmounted by an ordinary user, executable files on cd's are not allowed to run, and any disc that may be in the drive is not automatically mounted when the system starts. I would also get rid of any 'extraneous information' like iocharset and codepage. If you have these in as options and everything works fine, then by all means leave them in. If not take them out, and try it again.

Personally I have never liked the supermount 'feature' of Mandrake kernels and find it quite flaky and a nusiance at best.

Sry once agian for taking so long to reply (must make a bigger effort on my behalf) Here is a copy of the of the section you pointed out to me in fstab.

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,ro,exec,users 0 0

I can see some similarites between yours and mine but mine seems to have a heaps more things in there was well which you mentioned that might be there. So i should then remove those things you mentioned to make it look like this?

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,execo 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto user,execo 0 0

Thanks