Bug#701099: debian-cd: installer fails with two CD/DVD drives

[Jeff Norden <jeff@math.tntech.edu>]

Hi Andi,

No, mine isn't usb-based.  My asus motherboard includes a ASMB7 "management
module" which activates an extra ethernet port for system management.  You can
connect to the port with a web browser and monitor temps and fan-speeds, and
you can also remotely power the system on and off (the port remains active
even if the system is off).  There is also some sort of java-based remote KVM
interface, which I'm not using.  It seems that is what the virtual cdrom and
floppy devices are for.  My next step would have been to physically remove the
plug-in management module from the board, but the workaround I came up with
was easier.

My guess is that its going to be hard to track down the cause of this bug,
since it seems to be specific to very special circumstances.

-Jeff

> From: Andreas Stempfhuber <reportbug2013@afulinux.de>
> To: Jeff Norden <jnorden@math.tntech.edu>
> Subject: Re: Bug#701099: debian-cd: installer fails with two CD/DVD drives
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:21:04 +0100
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> in my case the wrongly selected DVD drive was provided via USB. Was that true 
> in your case as well?
> 
> If so that could be the source of the issue and also why it wasn't possible to 
> reproduce via qemu.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andi