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

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