On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:48:54 +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > actually xcdroast works quite nicely, in 2.6 with hdc=cdrom hdd=cdrom > and no ide-scsi anywhere in sight You *think* so; or it *does* ?? Then tell us your secret. I tried ... root=/dev/hda5 hdb=cdrom and re-detected the drive, etc., and it makes just the same trouble: waiting for half a minute, complains about ATAPI.