CD-Rom Drive Not Mounting

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:19:57PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
> I am almost up and running with Linux on my PS3.
> 
> I had some struggles with the install but have solved all issues but 
> one. I can't get the CD-ROM to work.
> 
> I installed desktop 7.10 Ubuntu from a CD so I am sure the drive works, 
> and it is a configuration issue.
> 
> Here is fstab:
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> # /dev/ps3da2
> UUID=281151d3-dc67-4e57-b918-0c9371ff5dea / ext3 
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> # /dev/ps3da3
> UUID=d528b54e-0d48-03b8-d42e-75a927573c0f none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> 
> I searched the net and added the ro, which was not part of the original 
> file created by the install.
> 
> Here is mount:
> 
> stephen at stephen-desktop:~$ mount
> /dev/ps3da2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
> varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
> 
> 
> So I see it is not mounted, but I do not understand why.
> 
> I run sudo mount -a in the terminal and it does no good.

mount -a mounts all auto mounted filesystems.  noauto means don't auto
mount.  Try 'sudo mount /mnt/cdrom'.

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