Anaconda Loader and USB devices

[Jason Maestri <jmaestri soleranetworks com>]

Greetings,

   I am having some trouble with anaconda not recognizing a USB-attached
CDROM drive when attempting to locate the kickstart file (I am running
anaconda 11.4.1.63 from Fedora Core 10/Updates).  Apparently, some time is
needed to allow the USB driver and devices to settle before probing for the
kickstart file.  With the Anaconda version we had previously been using
(11.2.0.66), we had added a call to sleepUntilUsbIsStable() inside of
setupCdrom() and this resolved the issue.  After browsing the current
source, I noticed that the usb.h and usb.c files have been removed, and so
this function is no longer available.  I could easily port it back, but I¹d
rather not, as things like that are usually removed for a reason.  Does
anybody have any suggestions as to a better way to do this?  Is there an
analogous function in this version of anaconda, or available in the kernel
that I am overlooking?

  Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
  Jason C. Maestri

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Jason C. Maestri
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Solera Networks
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