F11 and CD Failure

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:09 +0400, Hiisi wrote:
> 2009/10/4 Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net>:
> > I've just installed F11 on a small dell machine that had been running
> > FC8.  Everything installed ok except it does not mount the CD when I
> > place one in the drive.  I used the CD drive during the install of F11
> > so I know the drive works, and I can use the CD I am trying to mount in
> > other machines so I know the problem is not the CD.
> >
> > I have checked the message logs and found the boot process recognizes
> > the CD see below :
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > Oct  4 04:47:27 Co09 kernel: ata2.00: ATAPI: TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E, 3.7C,
> > max UDMA/33
> >
> > Oct  4 04:47:27 Co09 kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
> >
> > Oct  4 04:47:27 Co09 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TEAC
> > CD-224E          3.7C PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> >
> > Oct  4 04:47:27 Co09 kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw
> > xa/form2 cdda tray
> >
> > Oct  4 04:47:27 Co09 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> >
> > -----------------
> >
> > When I try to manually mount /dev/cdrom I get an error message that
> > there is no entry in fstab or mtab
> >
> >
> > Have any of you had this problem, and can you give me some pointers.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Greg
> >
> 
> Check your /etc/fstab
> Mine have appropriate line in it:
> /dev/cdrom		/media/cd		auto	ro,user,noauto,unhide	0 0
> 
> Try 'man fstab' in case of any questions.
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fedora hasn't put entries for CD drives into fstab for quite a long time
and I suspect that this entry above was either carried through many
updates or as a solution found by some search.

Are you trying this inside of a GUI - if so, it should just automount
for the 'user' when the user inserts the CD. If it does not automount
when inserted, typing 'dmesg' (as root) should give you some clues at
the end of the output.

If you are doing this without a GUI and perhaps in say runlevel 3, then
try from command line...

mkdir /media/cd
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cd

and see what happens

Craig


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