cant mount drive

[Thornton]

> Why are udf and vfat loading at boot?  Are you using a CD_RW disk
> regularly? or is this related to the use of vmware?
i did burn cd's regulary.  I also have vmware installed

> Are you running linux under vmware? or using vmware to run other virtual
> machines.
I am running vmware on linux.  As I need to access a few windows apps
that dont run under wine.
> 
> I would suggest that you minimize the factors we are dealing with here. 
>