Ok,

So without anyone responding, I took it upon myself to make the change.

I was using a LiveCD KNOPPIX style installation, but it was running from a Read/write CF card, so I downloaded the file: sysvinit-knoppix-2.84.tar.gz from http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org/sources/ and had a go at removing the prompt and cdrom removal in a way that actually worked.

After reading the code, I couldn't figure out WHY setting "NOPROMPT" and "NOEJECT" passing into the kernel at boot time wasn't working as it should - the code read quite clearly that if those were there, move on and finish rebooting.

Clearly frustrated at the whole ordeal - I simply removed the offending block of code using the magic of "//"

I then recompiled init, did the special dance of 1,000 files to extract, insert, and recompress the KNOPPIX file, and put it back onto my CF Card..

Voila - No keypress!

If anyone ever has this problem again - (IE: Someone breaks sysvinit to require a freakin' keypress ..) - let me know and I'll forward you either a diff, patch, or zip of the whole mess fixed up.

P