[Yaird-devel] Not finding cd-dvd rom (hda)?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>I have 3 machines running with initrd images generated by yaird, and I
>went for the 4th but yaird just doesn't seem to handle it...

Do you need the CDROM drive to reach the rootfs, or only later on?

Yaird only enables the absolute minimal to reach rootfs.


>BTW, I can't report any bug since I don't see any error, just the fact
>that I can't get the cd/dvd rom with yaird...

Well, our "bug" tracker is also for other issues - like "wishlist item" 
meaning "suggestion for new feature".  In other words: Feel free to file 
bugs that are not really bugs.

Worst thing that can happen is the package maintainer (me, for yeaird) 
disagree with you and quickly closes the bugreport.

No, actually the even worse is the package maintainer reacting like "oh, 
so annoying you are to file such stupid non-bug, not realizing how it 
might upset me!" and _then_ closing the bug quickly.  I disagree with 
such reaction by principle - I would rather have too many bugreports 
against the packages that I maintain than too few.  But we do not all 
work the same way...


>I was thinking maybe there's a way to make yaird always load the
>cd/dvd rom, even though it doesn't find it...  Any hints?

Assuming you need CDROM only _after_ reaching rootfs, you shoud figure 
out which driver you need, and add that driver to /etc/modules.  Or 
install either udev or discover to have it done automatically.

If you would want yaird to enable CDROM even if unneeded to reach 
rootfs, then feel free to file a bugreport about it.  Since we spoke 
about it here, I would not just close it as a non-bug.  But I would 
consider such request more of a feature-request than a bug, so would 
lower to severity "wishlist", and also I disagree with the relevance of 
such feature so would tag it as "wontfix"...


Of course, if CDROM _is_ neeed to reach rootfs, then it _is_ a real true 
genuine bug you found: Please file as a bugreport and let's get to 
understand it better!


>I'm not part of the list, so please CC me on any response if possible...

Ok.  Good that you mention it, since standard for Debian mailinglists is 
to _not_ cc unless explicitly requested. :-)


  - Jonas

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