On 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote:
> I'm trying to install 8.2b2 on an 600 Mhz iBook. I attempted to > partition the disk several different was and always got an error that it > could not find the disk. So I dropped in to the shell and started poking > around. Then I realized that the error wasn't due to the installer not > finding partitions, it was due to not having /dev/hda at all. Running > dmesg I find that on boot up it jumps right to hdb and says nothing > about hda. This machine installs OS9 and OSX just fine, is there some > firmware or kernel option that might help it find the correct device? > Generally there is no magic involved in finding an IDE hard drive. IDE support is built into the kernel. hdb on the iBook is the CD right? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
