dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 hello, i run mandrake 9.1, and i used to burn cds using k3b. recently i tried to copy a cd from my CDROM drive to my CDRW drive. it told me that i couldnt do it until i ran k3b setup. so, i went through k3b setup with (what i thought was) no problems. after that i cant get access to either my cdrom or cdrw drives. it says they are locked when i look at them in /mnt/ .... what went wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 One can only guess at what happens sometimes. I did have this happen once, and ran setup again. But I also always make my own adjustments when I run setup. I made a back up of my working fstab (fstab.back in my /home directory) and now I just copy it out whenever I break my system. If you post your /etc/fstab, it would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 sure, here it is /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom/ auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 this was also in there when i was looking for my /etc/fstab it was entitled /etc/fstab.k3bsetup /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 I forgot to include something else: do you use lilo? Could you post /etc/lilo.conf as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 im not sure if i do or not, but i found that file, so im guessing yes boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default="linux" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe" read-only other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 HI dhague30 and Ixthusdan Ok .. you have to add hdc=ide-scsi somewhere in your lilo.conf. So open it and look for image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" vga=788 read-only modify the append line as follow append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" Save your mod and type lilo in a console as root. Now open /etc/fstab. Look for the following lines and put a # in from of them #none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 #/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrom/ auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Now reboot (this is necessary :-( ) your computer and rerun the k3b setup utility. The software should see both your cdrom and cdrw now. Good luck MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 ok, i tried to add that little bit to lilo.conf, but i got this message "the file can not be saved. check to see if you have write permissions" how do i save it? [edit] ok nevermind that... i figured it out i used chmod 777 "/etc/lilo.conf" to gain write access Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 Ah yes, a little note. In a console, you need to "su" to root, and then do what MottS said. su password***** Don't forget to run lilo or the changes won't take Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 ok, i tried to add that little bit to lilo.conf, but i got this message "the file can not be saved. check to see if you have write permissions" how do i save it? Oh .. ok I see. You have to be ROOT (the user that have all rights on your machine) to save system config files. So in a console, before to open fstab or lilo.conf, type su and enter your password. You'll be able to save the file no prob. MOTtS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 Ah yes, a little note. In a console, you need to "su" to root, and then do what MottS said. <!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->su<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->password*****<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin--> Don't forget to run lilo or the changes won't take You are fast man :!::!::!::!::!: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 :mystismiles: :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 alright! that worked... thanks! by the way, should i delete the fstab.k3bsetup fille or just leave it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted April 18, 2003 Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 You can delete it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhague30 Posted April 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2003 can do, and done! thanks again!! :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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