Bug#250857: Fail to detect PCMCIA CD-ROM

[Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se>]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 23:31 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> The boot from floppy succeeded, but even using the cd-drivers.img
> floppy, the PCMCIA CD-ROM device was not detected; I don't think PCMCIA
> was even activated, since the light on the CD drive did not turn on.

PCMCIA support doesn't fit on the cd_drivers floppy, so you have to
use net_drivers. But you need both, because the kernel modules for
PCMCIA CDROMs are on cd_drivers. Hmm, I wonder if this is documented
somewhere.

> Joey Hess has blogged that this is not supported in the published
> images, and that he:
> 
>     "was able to build him a 3 mb iso image that had the necessary stuff
>     to see it. All with a couple lines of changes in the udebs lists."
>     <http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/randtopic2-2004-03-31-00-29>
> 
> What Joey failed to blog was *how* this was done, so that the rest of us
> with PCMCIA CD-ROMs can benefit without talking to Joey directly :-)

That was an ISO image. Since you boot from floppy, I assume that you
can't boot from CD?

-- 
Pelle