We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 1.1.1 of grml-etc from Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:31:38 +0100
Source: grml-etc
Binary: grml-etc
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-etc   - ecetera files for the grml system
Changes: 
 grml-etc (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fix the "grml 1.1-rc1 does not open the CD-ROM tray on reboot/halt"
     issue. Thanks to Josef Teske and several other bugreporters for
     reporting this issue. [Closes: issue370]
Files: 
 1c65fad5e4045bdf9cc3976f368e85fb 570 grml optional grml-etc_1.1.1.dsc
 9f0a42ac8ac06e87c039bc482feaf55b 142709 grml optional grml-etc_1.1.1.tar.gz
 fd05efdbeac9719a5de48ff24e2feb35 145070 grml optional grml-etc_1.1.1_all.deb

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Several people seem to have this problem, we have to investigate on that.