I'm trying to mount my cdrom but it tell me "not a valid block device". My fstab is as follows for the cdrom entry "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
Any help would be appreciated. I created the cd-r on a windows computer.

Thanks

What exact command are you using to try and mount it and do you have you compiled a custom kernel?

I'm using the following command, I change to /mnt, then I run "mount cdrom". I don't have a custom kernel.
Thew following info is from dmesg

hdd: JLMS DVD-ROM LTD-166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdh: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xe800-0xe807,0xe402 on irq 10
ide3 at 0xe000-0xe007,0xdc02 on irq 10
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4998/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 26712000 sectors (13677 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=1662/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hde: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hde: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
hdh: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdh: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2

When I give the following command, "mount -t iso9660 -r, it allows me to mount it seems, but when I use the ls command I get no response. Just the /mnt/cdrom promptmount -t iso9660 -r

Try changing your fstab to:I guess your trying to mount it as root?? It looks like you have scsi emmulation running, maby that is complicating somthing, sorry I don´t really know alot about fstabs. I had a similar problem when I was using a 2.6.x kernel until I put sysfs in my fstab.