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Re: insmod ide-cd fails right after installation of RH7.2



this is beacuse "ide-cd.o" is depended on the "cdrom.o" module.
try first:
first take a look at /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers , that you 
have "cdrom" directory
and "cdrom.o" module in this direcroty.
sometimes the installation is wrong about linking the real device to 
/dev/cdrom.

insmod /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.o

and then
insmod /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o


A better way is simply :
# modprobe -a ide-cd






Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just installed a minimal (no X, no frills) RH7.2 on an old Pentium
>166MHz with 48MB RAM, as a first try. The installation went just fine,
>but right after it finished I tried to mount a cdrom, and got
>
>Using /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_cdrom_R94f2f104
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_mode_sense_R2001c4a1
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_get_last_written_Ra27af6fe
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_mode_select_R1f88a106
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol init_cdrom_command_Rfacde1b5
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_fops_R5849550a
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_number_of_slots_R72c4d34f
>/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol register_cdrom_R8898dca8
>
>The command I actually used was 
>
># mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>which yields
>
>mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
>This is what ls -l gives:
>
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Oct 31 14:07 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
>brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   0 Aug 30 23:30 /dev/hdc
>
>Has anyone seen this? Any clues as to what was screwed up?
>
>I know that RH have a kernel update. I was about to update everything,
>but I can't use the CD so far... :-(
>
>Thanks,
>



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