On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

>
>       Hello James ,  Yup that works alright .  But the difficulty
>       Per & I were talking about is after the system (such as
>       slackware's live-fs) is -shutdown- the CD drive bay is still
>       locked ,  One has to hard-reset (or even power off for some)
>       before the bay will open .  I am well aware why the bay does
>       not open while the live-fs has it mounted .  But am quite
>       baffled as to why the darn thing remains locked after system
>       shutdown .  Again I am quite sure I know why that is happening
>       as well .  The live-fs is hard read-only and the umount of the
>       live-fs can not complete , so the CD drive never receives an
>       unlock .  Sound about right ?  Twyl ,  JimL

The point is, if you mount the CD as /usr, you should then be able to
unmount it properly on shutdown...


James.

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