Bypassing CD search delay

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Fri Oct 3 17:24:50 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:59:26AM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> To avoid a long delay while the Rawhide install looks for
> something in an empty CD drive, just put an audio CD init.

That "something" appears to be this (from anaconda logs):
.....
19:08:49 DEBUG   : drive status is CDS_NO_DISC
19:08:49 DEBUG   : /dev/sr0 reported No medium found
19:08:49 DEBUG   : /dev/sr0 reported No medium found
.....
and so on for two minutes.  That is quite thorough.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465364

I did not try such audio CD trick but passing to anaconda an
explicit location of install.img with 'stage2=...' parameter
prevents the above quite effectively too.  I wonder what happens
when there is no CD drive at all.

    Michal




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