On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:21, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I've just purchased a powerbook 17". I've tried (unsuccessfully) > installing debian using various howtos on the Net. I managed to get the > machine to boot and run the installer using the recent "boot-floppies" > in the woody distro, but the installer had problems finding any hard > disks. I decided to extract the kernel from the 2.4.20 deb package and > give that a go. It works better in that the hard disk is now > recognisable and I have managed to partition it and initialise the > partitions using mke2fs and mkswap :) > > .../...
This should be a FAQ now but... So, to get that powerbook to work, you need - A fairly recent kernel, I recomment some 2.4.20-ben10 or 2.4.21-ben1 at least - Pass "nol3" to the kernel command line to disable the L3 cache which is currently causing me trouble on this machine (data corruption) - Make sure the kernel is compiled with the new config option to move the ATA/100 to "hda", that will make things easier Ben.
