On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 10:18, nate wrote: > Pollywog said: > > Yesterday, I attempted to mount the CDROM and I got: /dev/hda is > > not a valid block device. > > I have not changed /etc/fstab or my kernel config options, and I > > had no problems until yesterday. > > I am not sure just how long the drive has been unmountable, though. > > I was using kernel 2.4.12 and last night I upgraded to 2.4.13 but > > the problem still exists. > > > > Anyone have ideas on where I should look? > > check dmesg. it will say what device the cdrom was detected > as if there was a cdrom detected. just run 'dmesg | more'
Also check that ls -al /dev/hda shows a valid block device with the correct major and minor numbers (3, 0). Check that /proc/devices has 3 ide0 in it. Check that you have the correct cdrom filesystems compiled. --mike
