Bug#382900: installation-report: d-i b3, Dell Latitude D810: CD detection

[Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org>]

> When booting from the CD, after loading the kernel and initial
> ramdisk, d-i failed to detect the CD and prompted for a driver
> floppy.  I've reported this problem before.  This laptop has SATA for
> both the hard drive and the CD.  Earlier versions of d-i were able to
> see only one of the CD and hard drive at a time.  I believe d-i beta 2
> was able to see both when booting from the CD, but I had other
> problems and switched back to Ubuntu.  Ubuntu Breezy and Dapper both
> install perfectly on this laptop.
>
> I also tried copying the kernel and initrd from the CD to the hard
> drive and booting with grub:
>
> kernel /debian-installer/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=12000 root=/dev/ram rw
> initrd /debian-installer/initrd.gz
> boot
>
> In this configuration, the system was able to see both the CD and the
> floppy at the same time and I was able to proceed with installation.
> I've filed that as a separate installation report.

It occurs to me that the reason this succeeded was that it was using
the 2.4 kernel rather than the 2.6 kernel.  So the problem is that the
2.6 d-i kernel fails to see both devices simultaneously.