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["FB" <register AT flintz.de>]

>> Well you can manually try to specify a root device in the initrd menu
>> you might have to go to a shell and see what's under /dev
>> I'm not familiar with firewire and what support is needed in the kernel
>> for it and if that support is available on the iso...
>>
>> might need to file a bug to add that.
>>
>> - David Brown
>
>FireWire is not in the ISO kernel. If you wish to have it, please fill >a
>bug (http://bugs.sourcemage.org) and tell us what kernel options (in 
>.config) are needed to make it work.
>
>Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru

I am sorry, but I am not big linux crack and don't know how to figure out 
which options actually are needed to make this work. But I can provide you 
with the modules Knoppix loads (knoppix is able to read the cd-drive 
perfectly).
lsmod in knoppix gives this results:

Module          Size            Used    by
i830                    69536   1
agpart          42724   11      (autoclean)
autofs4         8756            1
af_packet               13544   0       (autoclean)
i810_audio              25048   1
ac97_codec      11916   0       [i810_audio]
soundcore               3428            2       [i810_audio]
b44                     14888   0
serial                  52100   0       (autoclean)
mousedev                3832            1
hid                     22564   0       (unused)
input                   3168            0       [mousedev hid]
ds                      6536            2
yenta_socket    9508            2
pcmcia_core     39840   0       [ds yenta_socket]
thermal         6724            0       (unused)
processor               9008            0       [thermal]
fan                     1600            0       (unused)
button          2700            0
battery         5952            0
ac                      1824            0
rtc                     7036            0       (autoclean)
cloop                   8740            2
sbp2                    16396   1
ohci1394                22664   0       (unused)
ieee1394                183076  0       [sbp2 ohci1394]
usb-storage     61760   0       (unused)
usb-uhci                21644   0       (unused)
usbcore         57600   1       [hid usb-storage usb-hci]
ataraid         6180            0
ide-scsi                8816

Maybe this helped.
If you could point me to where I should start experimenting I would be glad 
to help finding out how to make this work.

-Flintz