Installing CD-ROM

[chriisb]

I apologize for my state of newbie-ness, but here goes. I am using Red Hat 9, and I recently replaced a CD-ROM drive with what I thought was a better one. Now Red Hat boots upu fine, but I cannot mount the CD-ROM. I put the older CD-ROM back in and the machine won't even boot up now. I am confused. I would be content with using either the old or new drives if one worked...Any help or references would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[chriisb]

This is what my fstab looks like

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Thanks again.

 

[nawlej]

Can you explain the part about not booting up? do you get error messages, or does it just go out to lunch with no warning on you?

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[morse]--... ...--[/morse], Eric.

 

[chriisb]

When I put the old CD-ROM back in the computer and try to boot up, it looks like it is checking for everything like normal and then just freezes after the lines

"hdd: CD-ROM CDU76E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14"

I don't understand why it says DVD-ROM, though, because neither drive is.