On Thu, Oct 12, Dominic Maraglia wrote:
# /sbin/lilo running on pmac_new BOOT_DEVICEPATH = ERROR: device hdc not yet supported OTHER_DEVICEPATH = ERROR: device hdc not yet supported <snip some normal output> set OF boot-device ERRORL device hdc not yet supported,\\:tbxi Usage: nvsetenv [variable [value]]
It would be great to b oot off the HD, but it that is not possible, I'd settle for having a boot CD that points to the HD to boot.
So, any ideas about the /dev/hdc errors or a link to where I can read about making a PPC boot Cd?
Try to set the boot path manually: find /proc/device-tree/ -name device_type | xargs grep -wl block this will give you something like: /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/ADPT,2930CU@3/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@21000/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk/device_type /proc/device-tree/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk/device_type ata-3 is likely the CD/ZIP drive, ata-4 is the hard drive. Maybe you have an alias for hdc in /proc/device-tree/aliases. ultra1 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@1" ultra0 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@0" zip "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@1" cd "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@0" hd "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@0" ide1 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@1" ide0 "/pci@f2000000/@d/mac-io@7/ata-3@20000/disk@0" ide0:9,/boot/vmlinux would be a valid path for my hdc/CD. I'm sure a 2.6 kernel would work on a 7.3 installation, all you need is a recent module-init-tools package to load the kernel modules. The current lilo relies on sysfs, which is 2.6 only.