I have a Fujitsu m2511a m.o. drive. If I boot linux-2.6.3-gentoo-r1 with no disk in the m2511a drive, the boot process hangs after it loads the sym53c8xx module. Apparently, it is waiting for a disk to be inserted because the boot process resumes after I insert a disk. If I boot vanilla-2.4.25 kernel with no disk in the drive, the bootup completes without interruption. My /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 and /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 say this: --------- quote -------- apm es1371 ppp_async svgalib_helper sym53c8xx vfat --------unquote -------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -mmmx -m3dnow -Os -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -mmmx -m3dnow -Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Could you please try upgrading to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5 and see if the problem persists?
This has gone long enough with no reply. Marking CANTFIX becuase of that.