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thanks- worked out- had a music cd in my drive!

Tony Lawrence wrote:

> Stephen wrote:
>
> > "mount /mnt/cdrom" like I always do and I got the error
> >
> > "Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too many
> > mounted file systems"
> >
> > I have no idea what this means beyond the fact that I can't access my
> > cdrom anymore in Linux.  thanks in advance
>
> First, try being explicit:
>
> mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
> If that works, then your /etc/fstab got hosed somehow.
> However, that would be unlikely without screwing you up in
> other ways.
>
> You can get that error with a music cd in the drive, too..
>
> --
> Tony Lawrence (tony@aplawrence.com)
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Sun Feb 27 19:13:57 2005:   anonymous


Thanks it worked Sir u people r realy great :)
love u All


Salman Sadiq



Mon Jan 14 13:55:25 2008:   anonymous


Not working on my case. My config is vmware 6.0 guest system Red hat Enterprise Server 5.

Error message below:

[root@your-0cdc4f5844 dev]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

[root@your-0cdc4f5844 dev]# mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

[root@your-0cdc4f5844 dev]# dmesg |tail
peth0: link up
device peth0 entered promiscuous mode
xenbr0: port 2(peth0) entering learning state
xenbr0: topology change detected, propagating
xenbr0: port 2(peth0) entering forwarding state
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
udf: udf_read_inode(ino 1926024) failed !bh
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
udf: udf_read_inode(ino 1926024) failed !bh
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)





Mon Jan 14 14:03:39 2008:   TonyLawrence


Of course VMWare may be complicating this - can you even

od -cx /dev/cdrom

And is /dev/cdrom linked to the appropriate device?



Mon Jan 14 14:08:40 2008:   TonyLawrence


By the way, a Google search for "vmware can't mount cdrom" turns up a lot of stuff, including

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/46908

Another search is "vmware bad superblock cdrom"

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