Subject: RE: Install YDL 2.1 on ibook600 CDRW/DVD No CDROM found
From: Edwin Chan (ergc0903@optonline.net)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 16:17:11 MST
search the mailing lists @ YellowDogLinux.com... I wrote something about how
to solve this problem a week or so ago... in short, you have to switch the
virtual console (apple, ctrl, fn, f2),
and use the makedevs command to create the device files:
makedev b /dev/hda 3 0 0 16 s
makedev b /dev/hdb 3 64 0 16 s (type makedevs at the prompt to see the
exact syntax, i'm typing this form memory..)
then mount:
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/media
and you should be all set..
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: John Brier [mailto:Johnr@brierassociates.com]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 10:06 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Install YDL 2.1 on ibook600 CDRW/DVD No CDROM found
I have tried to install YDL 2.1 on my brand new ibook 600 CDRW/DVD (Sony
CRX 800E) I followed the instructions from the support section of the YDL
site. I split my hard drive into two equal sections the first is unallocated
space( for linux) and the second is for Mac OS X. When the installer gets to
the part where it checks for the CDROM it says something like: no CDROM
found! Well this URL:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/breakdown/ibook.shtml from
YDL tells how to fix this problem, but it doesn't work! Here is what that
URL says incase you don't want to open a browser:
YDL 2.1 may require text-based* install: use "install
video=aty128fb:vmode:14" at yaboot prompt.
If the installer cannot see your CD-ROM, "Keith E. Laidig" offers, based
upon the General Mailing list:
Start the installation - only 'install-text' works. Go until you get to
the 'Default/Custom' installation page, then switch to the second virtual
console (hold down 'option' & 'control' & 'fn' - in that order - and then
hit 'F2'). You'll see the BusyBox> prompt. Now, type
echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/check_media
... which will change the value from 1 to 0 (you can cat the file to make
sure). Now switch back to the first virtual console, 'option' & 'control' &
'fn' then 'F1'. You will be able to continue on and pick the Media, etc..
Well I can get to the console just fine but the command doesn't work. I
was looking around while at the console and there is NOT a cdrom directory
under /proc/sys/dev/ ! so i that won't work. I have tried almost all of the
install modes including text. Does anyone know what to do here?
John Brier
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