Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn't detect correct cd/dvd drive

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/43012; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>
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Subject: Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn't detect correct cd/dvd drive
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:05:33 +0200

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 > Datum: Thu,  5 Aug 2010 07:50:03 +0000 (UTC)
 > Von: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > An: martin%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 > netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost
 > Betreff: Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn\'t detect correct cd/dvd drive
 
 > The following reply was made to PR install/43012; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn't detect correct cd/dvd drive
 > Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:46:09 +0200
 > 
 >  On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:20:04AM +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
 >  >  However on some machines where the CD can only
 >  >  be mounted via cd?d (rather cd?a) sysinst fails
 >  >  to detect the CD/DVD.
 >  
 >  Please explain and give more details why you would need to
 >  mount the raw partition.
 > 
 >  Background: this should not be a proerpty of the machine,
 >  but of the image you run sysinst from - or it would point
 >  to a bug in generation of the default disk label,
 
 This might be the case.
 
 set_geometry() in
 sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/biosdisk_ll.c
 
 always returns 0 but the callers don't expect this behaviour.
 
 >  which is partly arch dependend (i.e. sparc64 and sgimips
 >  do some magic, but those CDs just work).
 
 Christoph