Unrecognized hard disk

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Hello,

I have been having the exact same problem with my new iBook. i just bought 
it a couple of weeks ago (its the 600mhz, 256 ram, 20gb hdd, etc...). i get 
the "no hard disk found" error with YDL and Mandrake. on a post on 
tuxppc.org someone said they fixed it by entering "hda=xxxx,xx,xx" he had 
numbers there of course but what i got from this that he put in is drive 
geometry. however, i have no idea how to find that out on a mac, much less a 
mac laptop....
if you figure this out PLEASE let me know, id really like to get linux 
loaded on my system.

thanks,
p


>From: Mike Abraham <mikeabraham2000@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: Unrecognized hard disk
>Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:07:30 -0700 (PDT)
>
>OK, I give. No matter how I partition the drive on my
>iBook 2 (dual usb), the YDL 2.2 install gives a
>partition error -- no hard disk found.
>
>Currently, the drive is configured with 2 partitions,
>according to the instructions. The first is marked as
>unallocated, while the second is HFS, and has OS 9
>installed.
>
>I've seen some docs which suggest that the YDL
>partition needs to be formatted as HFS as well, though
>this contradicts the YDL 2.2 install guide.
>
>This doesn't seem specific to YDL either -- Mandrake
>8.2 gives the same error.
>
>Thanks in advance for the help.
>
>Mike
>
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