No DVD after OS install.

[BUR70N]

Hi,

We have a DL380 Gen8p server and installing the Linux OS 6.2 from DVD is fine, after the rebooting the server we can not mount the DVD drive only USB drives appear to work.

Tried to look for a driver but can not see them or find them, wondering if this is a common issue?

Thanks

Tom

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

What is the error you get when you try to mount the DVD drive?

When you try mount /dev/cdrom  /mnt what happens?

See if this link helps you: http://www.digitalindigo.net/support/redhat/mount.html

Thank You!
I am a HP employee.

[BUR70N]

Hi,

I get the following error.

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Thanks

[Torsten.]

What is the content of the CD?

The command would look like this:

mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sdb /cdrom

but use the correct device file!

[BUR70N]

The contents of the disc is the install for Linux Oracle 6.2 which was used to install the OS. When doing that I get the following..

mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist

dmesg | grep sd
uhci_hcd 0000:01:00.4: port count misdetected? forcing to 2 ports
sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 0:0:0:1: [sda] 573367600 512-byte logical blocks: (293 GB/273 GiB)
sd 0:0:0:1: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:1: [sda] Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
sd 0:0:0:1: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sda: detected capacity change from 0 to 293564211200
sda: sda1 sda2
sd 0:0:0:1: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
dracut: Scanning devices sda2 for LVM logical volumes vg_ipsnode2srv/lv_root vg_ipsnode2srv/lv_swap
EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

The ISO 9660 file system is commonly used by optical media, typically CDs.
The UDF file system is commonly used by optical media, typically DVDs.

See if this works for you:

Edit the /etc/fstab configuration file and append the following line to it:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 defaults 0 0

Thank You!
I am a HP employee.

[BUR70N]

Hi,

I don't think its a file system type issue.

The device doesn't appear in the /dev there is no /cdrom /dvd or /sr0

[Torsten.]

Consider to boot any live cd or another bootable CD to ensure the drive itself is working first - just an idea ...

[BUR70N]

This works and I can run through the install all over again, just after the install.

[Jimmy Vance]

/dev/cdrom is a link to another device. The systems I just checked show it linked to /dev/sr0

See if you can mount /dev/sr0 and list the contents of the disc inserted