Hello,

I have been wrestling with my MythBox for about 4 months now. I had a system that was almost working perfectly, but now have screwed it up on an upgrade to R5B7.

When I had the system at first, it had a problem with my video that required a newer NVidia driver. At that point I could stick in a CDR and copy files off it to the HD and install drivers. However, after the system was up and working if I opened a shell, I could not access the same CDR. When I did a 'ls /cdrom' it would give no errors but also list no files.

Now I have upgraded to R5B7 and have no audio. Last time, I installed realtek drivers and that fixed my problem. However, I can't access the driver on the CDR. What is up with why I can't access the cdrom?

Hardware: Gigabyte K8N51PVMT-9 (by the way don't buy this it is terrible), AMD 3200+, Seagate 300GB IDE, old DVD reader drive from an old Dell computer (doesn't write).

Thank you for your help,
Rick Wirch

Howdy-

Check your /etc/fstab file. Is the CD-ROM being properly mounted?

Can you cd directly into the CD-ROM?

Check your messages file
Look for an entry that shows that the CD-ROM was mounted.

Check your /var/log section. Look for any error messages in mythbackend.

Also, are you trying to access the /cdrom as root? or as another user?

Hope this helps,
Mike

hI wirchrick,


Normally you have to mount the file, as root, try mount /dev/cdrom and retry looking at it with the ls

As root try alsaconf to see if it can detect your audio.

Have a good day!
Mike

Insert the CD.Should be all you need to do.

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Hello all,

Thanks for the suggestions. When I try to mount the cdrom it says that /dev/cdrom is not in /etc/fstab or mtab. I looked in those files and sure enough there isn't anything but the hard drive partitions and a floppy even though I don't have a floppy.

What do I need to do to access the DVD-ROM? It works within Myth because I can watch (non-copyprotected) DVD's, and it worked because I installed both R5A30.2 and R5B7 from the CDR in the first place.

Also, I tried inserting a USB flashdisk and a bunch of text appeared stating that a Flashdisk device was mounted as SCSI emulation etc, etc. However, I tried mounting and cd ' ing to it and couldn't find it.

Help please,
Thank you,
Rick Wirch

P.S. Networking doesn't work yet because I need to install drivers for the wireless USB ethernet dongle that I bought from the Dragon people.
P.P.S. Yes I am logged in as root, and yes I tried mounting the cdrom.

This should be handled by the automounter. Have you got /dev/cdrom linked to the right place? A search of the forum should provide several detailed diagnostic walk throughs that I've done on this. Including searching the messages file for the actual device name... The cd_link.sh script should do most of this for you.

Hi,

Depending on how fancy your usb set up is, you could try making a directory, simple fstab edit and then mount a memory stick.

mkdir /stick
add to the /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /stick vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0

then try mount /stick
if it is happy, you get a prompt back.

The cd is basicly automount, example, I inserted my KnoppMyth cd and then:
sh-3.00$ ls /mnt/cdrom
KNOPPIX boot
sh-3.00$ eject
umount: /dev/cdrom is not in the fstab (and you are not root)

darn if that doesn't get you in the kneecap

oh and if you want to use the floppy, do mkdir /floppy then you should be able to mount one.

Mike

Hi all,

Thanks for the tips. With the latest ones, I was able to copy files from the cdrom. I just had to address it as /mnt/cdrom/* instead of /cdrom/*. I swear that earlier when I first started this project I said "mount /cdrom" and "ls /cdrom" and it worked properly.

I wasn't expecting it to be "ls /mnt/cdrom". Also the tips on the memory stick worked as well.

Unfortunately, I still have my audio problems even after installing the latest realtek audio drivers. I will post a new message and consider this one closed.

Thanks again,
Rick