Comment 102 for bug 8196

(In reply to comment #101)
> (In reply to comment #100)
> > (In reply to comment #99)
> > > It fails to load ide-{mod,probe-mod,detect,floppy}.
> >
> > Those messages are confusing but normal, and the installer only displays them to
> > the user in expert mode.
> >
>
> Regardless, it still fails to find or mount the CD, and therefore to install
> ubuntu. When I go to VC2 and type:
>
> mkdir /tmp/foo
> mount -r /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /tmp/foo
> It says:
> mount: Mounting /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 on /tmp/foo failed: Invalid argument
>
> There's nothing new on VC4 when I do that. It also won't mount my thumb drive,
> same error.
>
> When I tell the installer screen on VC1 to try mounting it again, the error is:
> Apr 4 19:40:52 cdrom-detect: CDROM-mount failed (error=1):
> device=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0
> It does that twice, with the usual messages about retrying, unmounting, and
> giving up.
>
> I tried mounting the device file that the cdrom0 link points to directly, same
> error. Ditto for the thumb drive.

If the device file appears, but doesn't work, then yours is a different bug.
Please open a new one.