I am stuck with the same problem, except for work reasons I can not be without a laptop so I can not delete all of the OS's to check. This is the white IBook, right?
For some reason Mandrake, Yellowdog, Debian, and SUse are all having the same problem. Can not find /dev/hda - no messages, finds the CD fine on /dev/hdb, but no writable drive. -Chris On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Paul Sabatino wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Colin Ward wrote: > >> On 4/10/02 10:09 PM, "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote: >>> >>>> Just for the heck of it I grabbed the YDL 2.2 iso, and tried it on >>>> the >>>> same iBook with exactly the same results. No /dev/hda and no mention >>>> of >>>> /dev/hda in the dmesg output. Nothing seemed unusual in the dmesg >>>> output, >>>> except for the fact that the hda device was missing :( >>>> If I get a chance I'll try an install again and post all the ide >>>> messages. >>>> >>> >>> Interesting. One way to keep folks from putting Linux on their >>> Apples ;^) >>> >>> Stew Benedict >> >> Stupid I know, but I've seen it done before. You are making your linux >> partition as 'free space" when partitioning the drive? >> Colin >> >> > It's a valid question, but yes I am...at least I think I am. By free > space > you mean a partition of type 'Unallocated'. > After realizing that the device entry was being created in /dev I just > made the whole disk unallocated, booted the mdk CD and checked to see if > the device was there. And I have yet to be able to get it to create that > device. > > My machine has nothing on it right now, so I'm open to suggestions on > things to try to diagnose this a little more. Maybe my pain can make it > easier on somebody else someday. :) > > <--Paul--> > >
