Unknown filesystem type 'iso9660'

I found a really old CD that has a bunch of game demos from 1998. It wasn’t too scratched up so I bought it for like $1 at a donation warehouse. I was originally hoping I could pass it through to a windows vm I already have working and use their compatibility options to run an old version of Windows that could play.

I tried mounting it as read-only to see if the contents were safe but while running “sudo mount -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/rom” - I get an error “/media/rom: unknown filesystem type ‘iso9660’”

Things I searched up on this suggested editing boot options and I wasn’t really expecting to mess with my system too much. Does Cachy have something in place for this kind of thing?

Hello and welcome,

What kernel are you running?
iso9660 module seems present in most (all?) I looked at.

ex;

modinfo iso9660

Otherwise I would generally point to here;

Running “uname -r” gives “7.0.0-1-cachyos”

When I run modprobe on isofs, I get “FATAL: Module isofs not found in directory /lib/modules/7.0.0-1-cachyos”. Running “modinfo iso9660” gives a similar error saying module not found.

I burn CDs pretty often so im also surprised i cant read this one

Interesting .. care to install and run an alternative like maybe the bore one?, ex;

sudo pacman -Syu linux-cachyos-bore linux-cachyos-bore-headers

Hi there, this is strange, did you recently update your kernel? If you did so and didn’t reboot your system, your running kernel could be trying to load the modules from a package that no longer exists… If that is the case, a reboot could solve it.

I’ll try this tomorrow! I’m away from my desktop for the night. I’ll give an update tmrw eve

i did the monthly update that just came out but i did reboot my system afterwards so I don’t think it’s that.

Weirdly enough, it seems to be working today. I’ll consider this fixed

Heh. :sweat_smile:

Did you get an update in between?

I did. Wasn’t planning to but discord wouldn’t open without an update haha

I asked because yesterday it appeared that it was specifically missing from the regular kernel (linux-cachyos), possibly some more. At least in the v3 and base ([cachyos]) repos.

But it seems there now.

Mostly for my own sanity I guess. :sweat_smile:

Gotcha. Well glad it’s fixed now - thank you for reaching out :slight_smile: