The original bug report describes the load order confict for the ide chip drivers in 2.4 which causes the cdrom to not initialize properly for stage 2 and the running system. The installer does not encounter this problem because it does hardware discovery first.
Expanded details: 1. /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils loads the modules listed in /etc/modules in order. The default is to install ide-cd and ide-detect. 2. /etc/rcS.d/S36discover scans for attached devices and loads the appropriate drivers. This is where cmd64x would be discovered and loaded (out of order). The patch is a prebaseconfig script that runs prior to rest of the module scan. I chose this workaround because shifting the order of rcS.d processing is too invasive and a backport of the ide work from 2.6 is non-trivial and not worth it for a maintenance kernel. Note: although the bug was filed against the kernel-source-2.4.27 package, the fix itself is to prebaseconfig. The patch has been committed in r23155. Close this bug. -- ************* Jim Lieb Wild Open Source Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 831.295.9317 Office: 831.421.0883 Fax: 831.421.0885
