Stew Benedict
Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:41:46 -0800
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Isaac Csandl wrote: > A few months ago, I was having trouble with the Ultra-ATA drive in a dual G4 > tower. The 9.1 system would install, but not boot. Eventually I gave up and > moved the HD to the "normal" ATA bus on the motherboard. The drive won't show > up at all in the normal mdk kernels, smp or enterprise, if it's connected to > the Ultra ATA bus. > > But recently I figured out what seems to be a strange quirk. The Ultra drive > shows up as /dev/hde when you boot the rescue CD with 'install-gui-benh > rescue text video=ofonly', but when I booted the machine from the HD with the > benh kernel, it shows up as /dev/hda. Odd. > > On the HD, I've installed the recent benh kernel from Mandrake Club, version: > 2.4.21-1bh-mdksmp, which is working well (it feels as fast as before, > although only one CPU shows in gkrellm -- i'm curious if this is correct, but > content that it works for now... thoughts, anyone?). >
Probably just x86-ism in gkrellm. cat /proc/cpuinfo output is different on ppc than x86. BenH kernel will generally be better on newer hardware. There is a considerable lag before Ben's stuff makes it into kernel.org. > I just thought I'd share the experience in case anyone else bumps into this > problem, because I wasted a lot of time editing /etc/fstab and > /etc/yaboot.conf (and doing the accompanying chroot, mount /proc, ybin > procedure in rescue mode) to change everything to /dev/hde, before figuring > out what was happening, that it should be /dev/hda, not /dev/hde. > Thanks! -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft