F11 and CD Failure

[Hiisi]

2009/10/4 Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>:
> On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 04:25 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> 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.
> It is hard to see that a permanent entry in fstab for ?dev/cdrom would
> work. On boot this entry would fail if there was no disk in the drive.
> In most cases if a date CD is inserted the psudo-entry is generated to
> mount the CD under /media
> --
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> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>

I boot into runlevel:3 and my fstab entry, as I already mentioned, says:
'...ro,user,noauto,unhide...'
Hence, no fail on start up.

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