Why does mounting a CD/DVD fails with "no medium found on /dev/sr0"?
Issue
- Trying to mount a CD/DVD fails with the following error message
[root@host]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@host]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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