I've built a new system using the test26.s kernel on a SATA drive and
suddenly cannot mount a cdrom; executing

mount /dev/cdrom

exits with

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

The entry in /etc/fstab is

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
user,unhide,noauto,owner,ro 0 0

and I can't seem to figure out what's going on.

Any hints about why this would happen (and what to do about it)?

Thanks.

Thomas Ronayne wrote:

> I've built a new system using the test26.s kernel on a SATA drive and
> suddenly cannot mount a cdrom; executing
>
> mount /dev/cdrom
>
> exits with
>
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> The entry in /etc/fstab is
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
> user,unhide,noauto,owner,ro 0 0
>
> and I can't seem to figure out what's going on.
>
> Any hints about why this would happen (and what to do about it)?
>
> Thanks.

Never mind, the cdrom link was to /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb.

Gnashing of teeth.

Thomas Ronayne wrote:

> Any hints about why this would happen (and what to do about it)?
>
My guess is that you have forgotten to build the ISO9660 filesystem into
the kernel, and you should include Joliet too.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

Audio CDs doesnt have a FileSystem so you can't mount then, what you
can do is read then with a CD player app, but you cant mount it....