I have a Rev A. Beige G3 Mac (Rev A. is the one that would only support Masters on the IDE busses) on which I am attempting to install Suse-PPC. I have the Apple OEM Ultra-Wide SCSI card connected to a 4.5GB SCSI drive (this is my main system drive), and I added a 9GB IDE (ST13940A) drive. The IDE drive is the Master on IDE Bus 0 (CD-ROM is Master on IDE bus 1). I want to install Linux on the IDE drive. I have divided the IDE drive into 4 partitions: 4.2GB HFS partition (for regular Mac stuff) 32MB HFS partition (the Boot partition the install manual instructs me to create) 128Mb swap partition 4GB A/UX Root partition If I boot into MacOS then launch BootX and then Linux, the IDE drive is never recognized. It doesn't matter if I boot into MacOS from the IDE or the SCSI drive. I also swapped the CDROM and IDE drive busses - still didn't work. The only way I have been able to get the Linux kernel (2.2.14) to see the IDE drive is by performing the following: Copy the following files from CD #1/suseboot to the small (32MB) HFS volume that is on the IDE drive: 'Finder' 'System' 'ramdisk.image.gz' 'vmlinux' I then select that volume as the boot disk using the MacOS Control Panel 'Startup Disk' and then restart. This causes the initial happy mac icon to be replaced with a "penguin sitting beside a mac" icon and the kernel boots and recognizes the IDE drive, and takes me into the installer. There are two problems with this approach: 1st, I can't easily boot back into MacOS, I have to zap PRAM to get back to MacOS; 2nd, I don't know how to specify the real boot partition (/dev/hda10) instead of the ramdisk image that contains the installer. I've tried kernel 2.2.16 from Bootx, but this locks up before the Penguin appears. I see the welcome to kernel 2.2.16 message followed by some address info, followed by booting... followed by some more information, then everything just stops with the last line being: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Does anyone have any ideas or experience on getting Suse to install on an IDE drive on a Rev A Beige G3 Mac with the OEM SCSI Drive? How about on a Rev C.? I found a place that has upgrade ROMs for the IDE controllers that basically upgrades them to be a Rev C. so Master and Slave are supported - maybe there were other fixes also. Thanks, Robert Palmer robertpalmerjr@mac.com