Trouble Mounting my CD-ROM

[Ardith]

I was trying to be smart and recompile my kernel so my sound card would work, and now my CD-ROM won't mount. It says the iso9660 fs is not supported by the kernel, but I made sure it was. I have recompiled that thing three times, with no success. Even the backup kernel won't work right anymore. It also won't find my network card anymore, but that's another story. I followed all the directions, read the HOWTO's, basically did everything I know how to do. It doesn't even make any sense. I also did not compile iso9660 fs support in as a module, it is supposed to be compiled right in to the kernel. I am using Red Hat 5.1, I forgot to write down the kernel version number, I'll try to get it later. Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Ardith]

Well, since nobody has answered yet, here's some more information to complicate things. I looked in the /proc/filesystems and it does not show the iso9660 filesystem. When I did 'make xconfig' I told it implicitly to load it. I did run it from an xterm, but I don't know if that would matter. Then I did make dup, make clean, and make zImage from the /usr/src/linux directory. From the same place I then did make modules and make modules_install. I have kernel version 2.0.35 and gcc version 2.7.2.3. It doesn't really make any sense at all. I could have reinstalled the distro, (It would have been easy since I don't have any programs that weren't on it loaded) but I would like to find out what is causing the problem so I don't make the same mistake in the future.

[Eccentric]

Redhat 5.1 has a reputation of being problematic. If I were you I'd definitely move to a more recent distribution. If you are set on using Redhat 5.1, at least download a newer kernel. This may not solve your problem, but I wouldn't be suprised if the problem is related to your version of Redhat/Kernel

[Ardith]

Thanks a lot. I've got RH 6.0 ordered, and should come any thime now. Hopefully that will fix things. I didn't realize until now how quirky it is. I am also beginning to foresee the day when I have to leave it altogether, unless they start shaping up. Thanks again. It's nice to have an answer once in a while.