diff -Nurp genkernel-3.4.10.orig/generic/initrd.scripts genkernel-3.4.10/generic/initrd.scripts
--- genkernel-3.4.10.orig/generic/initrd.scripts	2009-03-20 11:02:38.000000000 +0100
+++ genkernel-3.4.10/generic/initrd.scripts	2009-03-20 11:15:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -862,6 +862,8 @@ sdelay() {
 	if [ -n "${SDELAY}" ]
 	then
 		sleep ${SDELAY}
+	elif grep cdroot /proc/cmdline > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+		sleep 3
 	else
 		sleep 1
 	fi