cdrom: no medium found

eNTi · Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 4:48 pm Post subject: cdrom: no medium found

hi everyone.

lately my cdrom shows up with some "windows-like" behavior by not functioning every startup of gentoo. it get this error message (see topic) and when i run look into my kernel-message-log i find this:
bash: cd: lo: No such file or directory
Dec 3 20:33:49 [kernel] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the
drive.
Dec 3 20:33:49 [kernel] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the
drive.
Dec 3 20:33:49 [kernel] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the
drive.
Dec 3 20:34:49 [kernel] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the
drive.
Dec 3 20:34:49 [kernel] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the
drive.
Dec 3 20:34:49 [kernel] sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the
drive.
Dec 3 20:35:29 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:32 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:32 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:33 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:33 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:33 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:33 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:33 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:34 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:34 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:34 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:35 [kernel] cdrom: open failed.
Dec 3 20:35:46 [kernel] mtrr: no MTRR for e0000000,2000000 found
Dec 3 20:36:30 [kernel] Linux version 2.4.19 (root@darkLair) (gcc version 3

i'm not sure what my mtrr has to do with this but this message disappears after i have rebooted too. i'm not sure what acutally CAN cause such behavior but i fear it might be hardware related, though this happens since a week every now and then. any suggestions?

SysSpecs: AMD AthlonXP 2000+ (1666Mhz / 133[266]FSB)
Epox 8KHAL (VIA KT266A)
512MB Infineon RAM
Asus GeForce 4 Ti4600 128MB (V8460 Ultra)
IBM 80GB 7200rpm / Segate 40GB 5400rpm
Creative SBLive! [ALSA 0.9.0rc2]
Gentoo BSV 1.4.1.1
Kernel 2.4.19 (Vanilla)
X 4.2.1 / Enlightenment 0.16
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li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

check up ur /etc/fstab , speccially if u did a etc-update and if u loaded ur cdroam as module make sure it loads

eNTi · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 8:22 pm Post subject:

if i stated myself not clear enough: this happens every now and then and cannot be resolved in another way than by rebooting (i've found no other way). of course it loads. but NOT every bootup. and this is strange.
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li1_getoo · l33t Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 661 Location: Queens , NY

it happend to me also ,it worked for a while then stoped working then worked again
right now it stoped working for a while,i've been told that after a while cdroms need to be changed ,i kinda think is from the bios
btw its a dell latitude C600 and the cdrom is removable
and i can only do alt install on it

try this, it worked for me for a while but now is not doing the trick no more
depmod -ae <uname -r>

sheepdog · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 6:18 am Post subject: Re: cdrom: no medium found

sheepdog · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 6:35 am Post subject: Re: cdrom: no medium found