Sajjad Lateef wrote: > (Sending to debian-boot since cdrom-detect is maintained by Debian > Install System Team.) > > Hi, > > I am using debian-cd to create a custom Squeeze CD with a preseed.cfg > file. The ISOs install fine on most platforms except when installing > via DRAC with the ISO mounted as "Virtual Media". > > With DRAC, the install fails the "Detect and mount CDROM" step with > "No common CDROM drive detected message". Notice that if you then hit enter a time or two you will be prompted "Manually select a CD-ROM module and device?" -- say "yes" and it will prompt to load a module -- choose "none" as that is basically useless now, and you will end up at a "Device file for accessing the CD-ROM:" prompt. > I believe that the root cause is the debconf default value for > "cdrom-detect/cdrom_device" : > d-i cdrom-detect/cdrom_device string /dev/sr0 > > Question: Is there some preseed configuration that would convince > cdrom-detect to find and mount /dev/sr1 ? Sure, just boot with cdrom-detect/cdrom_device=/dev/sr1 -- see shy jo
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