CDROM fails after RedHat 9 up2date

[MindlessVictim]

Well, I had RedHat 8, decided to blank it and go to RedHat 9 (easier than deleting my UT2003 install ~3GB to make space for the upgrade). Everything is beautiful! I run up2date, grab about 130MB of junk from it (took all night and into the next day--dialup hell). After the up2date process is complete, I no longer have access to my CDROM. On low-level bootup, it's unable to map /etc/fstab or something with the CDROM, says the device does not exist. The RedHat network isn't much help to me.

I'm not entirely a noob, dealt with linux for years now, but definitely not an expert. I can run basic terminal commands and junk to get stuff going, compile my own stuff, things like that. If anyone can help, many thanks.

--EDIT--
Oh, also, when I right-click on the desktop, I usually see Zip, CDROM. Now I see CDROM, Zip, CDROM. And only the Zip shows up in Disk Management.

Thanks,
~Bradley

[dunbar]

I believe you will find a connection to this problem in /etc/lilo.conf

[storm2k]

except that unless you change it directly, redhat uses grub for it's bootloader.

you might want to open /etc/fstab in a text editor (like kate or kwrite, or gwrite, for example) and post the contents here. it might have fudged up your file.

you might need to su to root to do this.