fstab entry for CD missing in RHEL5

[Mertens, Bram]

Hi,

I have just kickstarted another RHEL5 server andnnoticed that there is
no entry in fstab to mount a CD.  Also the /mnt and /media directories
are empty.

I was able to mount a CD (actually an ISO image attached to the virtual
machine) but I'd like to know why this is not working on RHEL5 as it
does on older versions of RHEL.

I've included the output of the (as far as I know) relevant commands
below.

This is on a server that has been installed with as few packages as
possible, so perhaps there is just a "base" package missing but I
couldn't find any package that would fit the bill.

The software section of my kickstart profile is:
-bluez-gnome
vim-enhanced
-ypbind
-Deployment_Guide-en-US
-bluez-libs
-cups
-ppp
-cups-libs
-wpa_supplicant
-mesa-libGL
ntp
-yp-tools
-bluez-utils
sysstat
-NetworkManager

I've found several references to this problem on the net, particularly
related to VMWare but all the proposed solutions were to mount the Cd
manually as I did.

[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ ll /mnt/
total 0
[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ ll /media/
total 0
[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ ps auxwww|grep hald
68        2243  0.0  0.1   5392  3612 ?        Ss   17:48   0:00 hald
root      2244  0.0  0.0   3148  1092 ?        S    17:48   0:00
hald-runner
68        2253  0.0  0.0   2012   824 ?        S    17:48   0:00
hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
68        2257  0.0  0.0   2012   828 ?        S    17:48   0:00
hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0
root      2266  0.0  0.0   1968   704 ?        S    17:48   0:00
hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda
mertensb  2661  0.0  0.0   3912   692 pts/0    R+   18:14   0:00 grep
hald
[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ ps auxwww|grep udev
root       410  0.0  0.0   2808  1368 ?        S<s  17:48   0:00
/sbin/udevd -d
mertensb  2663  0.0  0.0   3912   696 pts/0    R+   18:14   0:00 grep
udev

[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ sudo grep -i cd /var/log/anaconda.*
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:05 INFO    : modules to insert cdrom ide-cd
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO    : loaded cdrom from
/modules/modules.cgz
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO    : loaded ide-cd from
/modules/modules.cgz
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO    : inserted /tmp/cdrom.ko
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO    : inserted /tmp/ide-cd.ko
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:17 INFO    : trying to mount CD device hda
/var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:48 DEBUG   : Matched nscd - 2.5-12.i386 to
require for nscd
/var/log/anaconda.log:03:00:18 DEBUG   : Matched nscd - 2.5-12.i386 to
require for nscd
/var/log/anaconda.log:05:00:45 DEBUG   : Member: nscd.i386 0-2.5-12 - u
/var/log/anaconda.log:05:00:45 DEBUG   : Adding Package nscd -
2.5-12.i386 in mode u
/var/log/anaconda.syslog:<6>found SMP MP-table at 000f6cd0
/var/log/anaconda.syslog:<4>hda: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI
CD/DVD-ROM drive
/var/log/anaconda.syslog:<6>hda: ATAPI 1X CD-ROM drive, 32kB Cache,
UDMA(33)
/var/log/anaconda.syslog:<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
/var/log/anaconda.syslog:<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ ll /dev/cdrom*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 17 18:17 /dev/cdrom -> hda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 17 18:17 /dev/cdrom-hda -> had

[mertensb at portalpocsrv ~]$ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only

Kind regards

Bram

-- 
Bram Mertens
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)





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