Mounting Cdrom Failed

meprefontaine

Hi,

I am trying to use BitDefender Rescue disk to get rid of a virus on my PC. When booting with the rescue disk in verbose mode, everything seem to work fine until it try to mount the cdrom. I get the following errors:

Mounting /dev/sr0 on /cdrom failed: invalid argument

Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

At first, I thought that I did not burn the CD correctly. But tried the CD on my laptop and worked fine.

Never used linux before, so it is really hard to troubleshoot/resolve this issue.

Any help would be appreciated

Cristi Raducu

Hi MEP,

What version of the rescue CD are you trying to boot from?

Did you download it from:

http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/

Also if you have connected any external USB drives (besides mouse/keyboard) please remove them and retry.

What happens when you boot in normal linux mode (not verbose)?

meprefontaine

Hi MEP,

What version of the rescue CD are you trying to boot from?

Did you download it from:

http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/

Also if you have connected any external USB drives (besides mouse/keyboard) please remove them and retry.

What happens when you boot in normal linux mode (not verbose)?

I did download from http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/

No external usb drive

When I boot in normal mode, nothing appens. Black screen with "BitDefender" in the top center of the screen.

Cristi Raducu

By any change are you using an external USB CD-ROM?

After booting from the CD-ROM press the TAB key and insert at the end of the path : cdrom-detect

If this fails also you can use an older version of the rescue CD:

http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/...0_5_10_2010.iso

meprefontaine

By any change are you using an external USB CD-ROM?

After booting from the CD-ROM press the TAB key and insert at the end of the path : cdrom-detect

If this fails also you can use an older version of the rescue CD:

http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/...0_5_10_2010.iso

The "cdrom-detect" did not solved the issue.

The older version was able to mount cdrom but freeze when trying to discover plug-in devices??

I am about to wipe the disk clean. Any last advice before I do this. I would rather correct the problem instead of wiping the disk but it seem inevitable.