On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 22:33 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Steven Augart (saugart@mazunetworks.com) said:
Second of all, it appears that Kudzu 1.2.24.3, (as distributed in the FC 5 RPM kudzu-devel-1.2.34.3-1), is not detecting the CD drive on the IBM BladeCenter I've been testing on.
This is an IBM Machine Type 8677, model # 2XX. (8677-2XX), manufactured in April of 2003.
Is USB working correctly? Does it show up in the USB device lists in /proc or /sys in the installer?
Dear Bill,
Thanks for the quick reply! I'll build a new installation CD with a modified Anaconda that doesn't crash on the failure to detect, and then I'll be able to get a shell (or at least anaconda-busybox) and I can tell you what's happening. (I'll have access to the machine again in the morning; it's midnight here in Massachusetts.)
I can also write some test code that will exercise the Kudzu CVS head on those hosts. We have some blades that are running FC 4, and I can see if the Kudzu CVS head can detect the CD under our variant of the FC 4 stock kernel, with all modules loaded. The security appliance products we embed Linux into don't normally use the CD ROM drive, so access to it may be broken on those machines except when booting off of that CD drive; I'll find out in the morning.