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I compiled and installed the newest kernel source 2.6.16 on ubuntu 5.10 of my T43p laptop. But there are two problems afterwards. I can't automatically mount usb disks and always get the error message:
Error: device /dev/sdb1 is already mounted to /media/REMOVABLE1
Error: could not execute pmount
Another problem is I can't mount my cdrom as well. The error message is:
mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist
But all these things were fine before I installed the new kernel.
Anybody here can help me with this problem? Thank you very much in advance.
Error: device /dev/sdb1 is already mounted to /media/REMOVABLE1
Did you check if /dev/sdb1 is really mounted on /media/REMOVABLE1 ? As you compiled a custom kernel 2.6.16, kernel automounter and subfs might have automatically mounted the filesysems on /media/<mnt-point>. What is the mount point you specified in /etc/fstab ?
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I can't automatically mount usb disks and always get the error message
Are you trying to say that YOU are trying to mount the device yourslef by running "mount /<mnt-directory>/<mnt-point>" or something similar ?
I commented the last two lines because the usb disks automatically are mounted and appear on the desktop using default 2.6.12.9 kernel on ubuntu.
I am not sure that /dev/sdb1 is really mounted, how to check that? I am not trying to mount the device myself manually by the command. Hope this information is useful.
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