problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Vern W Heesch]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Welcome to the club of People Whose Lives Have Not Been
> > Improved by Devfs. The real question I hope somebody answers is, can we just
> > remove devfs support from the kernel and run our machines the old fashioned
> > way?
> 
> I'm by no means a devfs expert (i prefer not to use it), but i think you
> can safely turn it off in the kernel, but you'd have to manually create
> all the needed entries under /dev to replace the dynamic ones that devfs
> creates.
> 
If I remember correctly this was Mandrake 9.1 ? You can disable devfs by changing the line in /etc/lilo.conf from devfs=mount to devfs=nomount. Don't forget to run lilo afterwards. If it's a supermount problem you can do, supermount -i disable /mnt/cdrom, or supermount -i disable to revert all fstab entries to non-supermount.