Hard Drive Not Found - Suse PPC 7.3, Beige G3 PowerMac
I've been using SuSE Linux for some time on my PCs with no problems. I've also successfully installed and run 7.3 on my new world G4s with no problems. Now, I have an old world beige G3 mac, and I'm having trouble. This is a standard G3 mac. I have a 30GB Western Digital IDE/ATA hard drive on the primary/master controller, and a normal Mac CDROM is on the secondary/master. MacOS 9.2.1 installs, boots, and operates on this setup with no problems whatsoever. I have the drive partitioned per the instructions, with a 256 MB MacOS HFS+ partition, a 128MB A/UX Swap partition, a 10GB A/UX Root partition, and the rest on a Linux PPC Home partition. MacOS 9.2.1 is installed on its partition and running with no problems. I insert the Suse PPC 7.3 CD 1, open the suseboot folder, and launch the BootX application. I provide root=/dev/fd0 for the parameters (also tried it with nothing, and with other options outlined below) and the kernel comes up. Here's the problem: Regardless of what boot options I try, or whether I use yast1 or yast2, the system cannot detect the hard drive. Yast1's partitioning tool says "no partitions available." Yast2 aborts with "Hard drive not found." I've also tried: root=/dev/hda ide0=ide-scsi ide0=noautotune (blank/no bootparameters) Nothing makes any difference. Has anyone encountered anything like this? Any help anyone could provide would be most appreciated. Thanks! Glen
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