no cd on startup

[Andy Boersma]

Tom, Check your /etc/fstab entries for the CD/DVD drives.

It should look something like this
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

if any error here the CDs will try to mount and will hang until a timeout.

Andy


Tom Daly wrote:
> I've had this question up on the Kubuntu forum for a couple of days now, 
> with lots of readers, but no takers ...
>
> 9.04 / K4.3.2
> I have a cd drive as primary slave, burner as secondary master
>
> for many  many months, on startup the Kubuntu logo and blue progress bar 
> show up then gag at about 1/3 progress.  It then flips to cli, reports 
> that the burner doesn't exist, then continues on, gui appears and away 
> we go.
>
> quite by chance I've discovered that if I have cd's in both drives on 
> startup, there is no gag, no cli break, and the start goes through in 
> about half the time. (I've tried this with a cd in one or the other, but 
> that doesn't work- has to be in both)
>
> so I'm assuming there's something going on with those devices not being 
> mounted during startup?? and that's there's something I can do to fix it??
>
> question for all:  what is the something that I can do??
> [newb-alert]
>
>   

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