On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I have a Blue/White G3 Rev.1 (yosemite) and have been running different linux
> distros
> for 2 years (LPPC, YDL...). First, congrats for DrakX which sounds really nice,
> for the french
> Kbd too...
> Thought, I ran through a problem with DrakX (Final Mandrake 8.0 PPC) which was
> unable to
> see my internal SCSI drives. Fortunatly I have a third drive that is an IDE and
> which was
> recognized and could install Mandrake 8.0 on this guy.
> Of course the bootloader install did not work as no MacOS partition was seen. I
> could start
> Mandrake 8.0 later on using BootX.
> How come the internal SCSI drives are not seen (YDL 2.0 sees it, LPPC2KQ4 sees
> it too)
> by DrakX? Adding the MacOS partition by hand during the bootloader install did
> not work either...
>
The SCSI issue may be due to my omitting the aic7xxx driver. Do you
know what SCSI card the machine uses? As far as being able to boot MacOS
from ofboot, that should not rely at all on the Linux kernel, as the whole
process takes place before Linux ever comes into play. Where does MacOS
reside and what does Open Firmware show as a boot-device?
Stew Benedict
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