Bug#547454: cdrom: Installed system 2.6.26 fails to boot if CD is inserted upside down in drive

[Chris Tillman]

Hi Mark,

Thanks, well it really was a problem, but since no one paid it any
attention it's just aged away hasn't it. Who has CD ROM drives any more?
Yes, I do still have the computer, but I have to use an external keyboard
with it now because the keyboard is shot. It's not worth it to dig it out
from the garage. Of course, if anyone wanted to work on it, they could
easily try to reproduce the issue with today's kernel. But I'm happy for
the bug to be closed.

But to be clear, the system was already installed, I was not intending to
boot from the cdrom, so it was not in /etc/fstab. I was intending to mount
it manually and then record on it. The system was apparently trying to boot
from it anyway, but it had a bad reaction to finding it upside down.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM Mark Hindley <mark at hindley.org.uk> wrote:

> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> Chris,
>
> I know you reported this a long time ago. Apologies for the wait.
>
> On the off chance you still have that system around, is this still
> reproducible?
> If so, is the cdrom mount specified in /etc/fstab?
>
> If not, I will probably close, as there is little actionable.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>


-- 
Chris Tillman
Developer
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