Bug#292951: not detecting cdrom on iMac G5

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

severity 292951 serious
thanks

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Joel Van Velden wrote:

> Debian Installer (nightly version 20050128 netinst.iso) does not succeed in
> loading the cdrom drive so it cannot proceed further with the installation.
> 
> To clarify: The cdrom boots an i choose "expert-power4" from the
> choice of kernels prompt.  Kernel loads.  Debian installer loads.
> Prompts for choosing keyboard, locale, etc., which work.  Only
> option now left is to load off the cdrom the next part of the
> installer, but it cant detect the cdrom at all.

I can reproduce this behaviour on an iMac G5 from a friend, using RC3 of d-i.