[arch-releng] archiso boot fail from cdrom (Was [PATCH 1/3] [syslinux-iso] ....

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

  On 06/26/2010 08:14 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 27.06.2010 00:46, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>>> I tested on real machine and booting from cdrom works OK.
>>> And also tested under Virtualbox and also works fine booting from
>>> cdrom (iso).
>>> So if you testwas on qemu, I guess that something is wrong with new
>>> cdrom_id (there are several changes) and qemu.
> Yes, I tested on qemu. A simple udev rule like this one in the initramfs
> will also do the trick:
Ok seems to be a qemu-kvm issue.

I am doing some tests, and qemu cdrom seems to works as expected if more 
than one cd-rom drive is used but fails with only one cd-rom drive.

To track details about this:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg03936.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=609049

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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