Cannot load/mount CDRom Drive

[Bob Cortez]

Never mind.  I just read again what the problem is.  Nothing to do
with BIOS setup I'm sure

On 6/21/07, Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com> wrote:
> first thing that comes to my mind is to check the boot sequence in the
> BIOS Setup.  I would assume you already did that, but you know what
> they say assume.
>
> Bob
>
> On 6/21/07, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
> > I know that the answer will become obvious after replies, but I simply
> > cannot get Feisty 7.04 (ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-16-386) to find and mount
> > the CDRom for an HP XE744. I've not pulled out the CDRom drive yet to
> > find out who it is made by, but it's a 48x that works just fine under
> > Knoppix.
> >
> > So, I'd appreciate some help in pointing me in the right direction on
> > getting 7.04 to recognize the device and mount it.
> >
> > I've tried noacpi in grub, fiddled with fstab until I'm blue in the
> > face, and I just can't get this CDRom drive to be recognized at all.
> >
> > The HP XE744 is an old Pavilion model that comes with a 733Mhz Celeron
> > processor, Intel i810/82810 chipset, 48x CDRom, 20Gb hard drive (that
> > died and has been replaced with a 6.4Gb drive), and otherwise works just
> > fine.
> >
> > Note: I pulled the drive from my old test server, so it initially was
> > looking for multiple CDRom drives etc.; those have been edited out of
> > the fstab and the fstab entry for the new CD is simply:
> > /dev/cdrom  /media/cdrom auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
> > and yes there is a directory in /media/cdrom.
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right/obvious direction? This is the last
> > major thing that I need do before finishing bundling the system for some
> > old folks and getting them back online (ex their old WindowsME OS).
> >
> >
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