Richard Ibbotson
One of my SuSE 7.1 AMD-K6-2 machines has started to do some strange things in the CD-ROM department. When I try to mount it with either a terminal window or by clicking on the icon in KDE 2 I get the following error message......
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of the /etc/fstab
The newline ('\n') character is missing at the end of the last line. (BTW, all text files are supposed to contain '\n' at the last line in "traditional" Unixes.) Open /etc/fstab in a text editor and press the Enter key at the end of the last line and save the file. This warning is not related to the CD-ROM problem.
mount: /dev/cdrom: can't read superblock
Check that /dev/cdrom is a correct link, for instance $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 17 00:42 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc $ dmesg | grep hdc ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: SONY CDU4811, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto noauto,user,exec 0 0
It is better to explicitly specify it's a read-only file system, but it is not related to the problem. /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se