cdrom problem

[khilari]

Hi people i wanted to mount hp-ux core cd onto th esystem and i am getting thi s
(h8193n3)root# mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /cdrom
mount: /cdrom: Stale NFS file handle

Before i was getting nothing. Then i did insf -e and then i got this message.

Thanks.

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

Somebody must have tried to use /cdrom as nfs mount point earlier and did not unmount it properly.

provided you have no other nfs mounts on this system that is critical, run

/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nfs.client start

this will disconnect any nfs mounts that are having problems.

if you have nfs mounts that you want to mount back, either do it manually or if they are in fstab, just run

mount -a

this should free up your /cdrom mount point for you do whatever you wish with it.

[Torsten.]

I guess Mel hit the nail ...

Just create and use /SD_CDROM as your mountpoint

Don't forget to use mount -r if you are trying to mount a bootable CD.