Final CAll - YDL 2.3 Installation on iBook 600mhz

Sun Dec 8 10:22:01 2002

One last plea here.....

iBook 600mhz, 30gb hard drive.

The YellowDog Installer - in text or GUI mode CANNOT even see the hard
drive.  I mean CANNOT see it.

The installer says:  "No Hard Disk Found".

I cannot partition it with YDL.  Why?  Because it can't be seen...

The problem is NOT partitioning, I know how to partition the drives.  The
problem seems to be with YDL detecting the drive.  That means it is either
the ATA Bus or the Hard Drive it is having problems with.

The Hard Drive is functioning, it is good - I know this.  I suspect that it
has to be something with YDL recognizing the ATA Bus.

Has anyone seen this or know what to do with this?

Thanks,
CR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathanael Hasbrouck" <natbrouck@webryders.net>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: YDL 2.3 Installation on iBook 600mhz

You _have_ got the driver partitions still, right?  The partition map
should have 2 to 5 or so little partitions at the beginning, then
your three linux partitions, then mac partitions, etc.

If that's all fine, I think I saw something a couple weeks ago about
DiskUtils not being a good idea for partitioning, and that you should
do that in the installer.  Of course, I haven't actually done it so
I'm no help there, but... you could always check the archives, if you
haven't already. :^)

NRH

>Tried P-RAM zap...  No go...
>
>I'm trying to download the lastest ISO from the net right now.  Maybe
>something will work better with it.
>
>Can anyone else shed some light in this - I'm stuck and I am not even out
of
>the gate...
>
>CR
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <rid@wgi.su.se>
>To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:26 AM
>Subject: Re: YDL 2.3 Installation on iBook 600mhz
>
>
>I realize I misread the question; I was thinking of partitions not
>found... You could try one of the standard solutions - reset PRAM.
>Helps sometimes :)
>
>/Rickard
>On 5 Dec 2002, at 7:03, C.Randolph wrote:
>
>>  I erased the entire disk and left it as unallocated - this is from the
>>  Mac Side using DiskUtils...
>>
>>  Once again, same result, no hard disk found.
>>
>>  I would be glad to repartition them during the install but I can't, it
>>  cannot see  the Hard Drive at all.
>>
>>  CR
>>
>>  P.S.  I was reading an older post with regards to a similar problem on
>>  a G4. Is there something up with the ata-bus? It seems that the G4 was
>>  having the issue since it was working on a ata-100 bus.  When they
>>  switched it down to 66mhz bus it worked fine. ----- Original Message
>>  ----- From: <rid@wgi.su.se> To:
>>  <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> Sent: Thursday,
>>  December 05, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: YDL 2.3 Installation on iBook
>>  600mhz
>>
>>
>>  I seem to remember something similar... I think you cannot "reuse"
>>  partitions already created, so you need to create them during the
>>  install process. Anyway that's what I did. After a failed attempt I
>>  started a new, wiped all partitions and re-created them. Voilà.
>>
>>  Cheers
>>  /Rickard
>>  On 4 Dec 2002, at 22:32, C.Randolph wrote:
>>
>>  > I just picked up an iBook:
>>  > 600mhz
>>  > 384mb RAM
>>  > 30GB HD
>>  > AirPort Card
>>  > blah blah blah...
>>  >
>>  > I have a purchased version of YDL 2.3 and the CD is good - I know
>>  > this because I have been using it successfully.
>>  >
>>  > During the GUI or Text installation - at the Partioning section - it
>>  > tells me that no HardDrive is  found..
>>  >
>>  > The drive is good, it takes partitions and installs with Mac OS9 and
>>  > I had OSX running on it.  Right now I completed wiped the drive with
>>  > Disk Utilities and left 3 open partitions for Boot, Swap, and Root.
>>  > Still the installer does not see it.
>>  >
>>  > Any thoughts on this?
>>  >
>>  > CR
>>  >
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