YDL fdisk says it can't find hard drive on new dual G4
Grant Chesy
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Oct 15 13:21:01 2002
This is one of the latest G4s, the one with the four cooling holes at =
the bottom of the front, the metal drive bay covers, and that same silly =
exposed speaker cone at the top.
I think Apple crippled this hardware to hide the IDE drive so people =
would have more trouble trying to install OS9 on the box. The apple =
disk partioning software w/ OS 9.2.2 can't see the drive either. If you =
install OSX, then do a software restore of a "special" OS 9.2.2, it =
works fine... even if you then delete the OSX. Even at this point, a =
standard OS 9.2.2 CD cannot see the drive, even though you can now boot =
directly into the restored "special" OS 9.2.2.
Is there a similar (or completely different) workaround to get YDL =
installed on this box?
BTW, it is just an IDE disk.
Thanks.
g