Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Randy On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:54:23PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: is there a way to see what the dmesg was for a kernel that didn't finish booting due to a kernel panic? Yes, netconsole as described in Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-15 Thread Randy Barlow
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 11:03 +0100, Michael Hanselmann wrote: Yes, netconsole as described in Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt. OK - now I'm really baffled - I've tried again but this time I used genkernel. However, even the genkerneled kernel can't seem to detect my hard drive! This

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-15 Thread Randy Barlow
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 11:37 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: OK - now I'm really baffled - I've tried again but this time I used genkernel. However, even the genkerneled kernel can't seem to detect my hard drive! This time I was allowed to drop to a shell and the only hd* was hda, my cdrom. The

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Hanselmann
Hello Randy On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:37:25AM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: OK - now I'm really baffled - I've tried again but this time I used genkernel. However, even the genkerneled kernel can't seem to detect my hard drive! This time I was allowed to drop to a shell and the only hd* was

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-15 Thread Randy Barlow
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 18:57 +0100, Michael Hanselmann wrote: Can you please post the kernel output, which you gather using netconsole, on an http server? I guess your kernel is missing some option, but I'm not sure which. Did you only check /dev/hd* or also what dmesg said? I think I may have

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-14 Thread Randy Barlow
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:42 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Thanks to Michael and Nathan for your help so far. I've tried /dev/hda,c and e as being root upon rebooting, and every time I get a kernel panic. I'm not totally sure why, but I've been looking into the config to make sure I have things

[gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-13 Thread Randy Barlow
Howdy all! I'm new to ppc but not new to Gentoo. I just picked up an old G3 Blue and White for $20 to play around with, and I'm just starting to install Gentoo. I'm noticing that my hard drive seems to be showing up as hdc and the cdrom as hda in the install cd environment. Is this

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-13 Thread Nathan Smith
Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all! I'm new to ppc but not new to Gentoo. I just picked up an old G3 Blue and White for $20 to play around with, and I'm just starting to install Gentoo. I'm noticing that my hard drive seems to be showing up as hdc and the cdrom as hda in the install cd

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc

2007-01-13 Thread Randy Barlow
On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:10, Nathan Smith wrote: I just finished installing Gentoo on a BlueWhite, so I can offer some advice. Don't trouble yourself at first with the hardware (which bus the HD is plugged in to, jumpers, etc.) Just install Gentoo to /dev/hdc. Now once you boot into