My son came over deleted the cdrom from fstab and when we rebooted the computer something wrote the line into fstab and the computer booted with no error. Go figure that one out? Anyways it works now :-) --- "Michael J. Dikkema" <mjd@moot.ca> wrote:

From: "Michael J. Dikkema" <mjd@moot.ca> To: Mel Seder <melseder@yahoo.com> CC: roundtable <roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Subject: Re: [RndTbl] "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" error message and problem Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:19:35 -0600 (CST)

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The following is the contents of my /etc/fstab.

When my computer boots I get the message "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" and the cdrom is not useable. My cdrom1 has been broken for sometime now. I have removed some spaces because of wordwrap in yahoo mail.

Either the symlink to /dev/hd? is missing, or the device is not recognized by linux anymore. (dead?)

Check dmesg for funny things regarding the device, and ls -l /dev/cdrom would help too.

--- Michael J. Dikkema, CCNP, CCIP mjd@moot.ca

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