Bug#597553: cdrom-detect: Need a simple retry or delay to mount USB CD-ROMs
Package: cdrom-detect
Version: 1.33
I'm doing some testing on the squeeze debian-installer package from svn.
In the Lenny release, when installing from a USB CD-ROM it sometimes
took longer to load the modules, spin up the drive and get a response
before the mount command would fail. This meant that in some cases it
was necessary to hit Enter to retry the mount as prompted by the installer.
In Squeeze, the installer no longer allows for a simple retry and it is
now necessary to go through a three step 'Load CD-ROM drivers from
removable media' etc. just to simply retry the CD-ROM mount.
Given that this has been an issue for two releases, would it be possible
to just try to mount twice for each device instead of once. Or possibly
have a slight pause between running list-devices (which appears to
trigger the USB modules to load) and the subsequent mount attempt?
I've got a repeatable scenario and am willing to test any changes.
Tony
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