On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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
> 

I don't think removing MacOS is necessary.  This seems to be at the
hardware level, not partitioning or anything.  There are some kernel
options that can be passed for ide:

hda=noprobe
ide0=dma

There are others, looking at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt, but
these seemed the most appropriate.  If we're not picking anything up for
ide0/hda in dmesg, then all bets are off to continue the install.

Stew Benedict

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