Subject: Re: YDL 2.1 Installer: No Harddisks Found
From: Geert Janssens (geert.janssens3@pandora.be)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 02:49:53 MST
I did some further investigations myself.
Starting from the text based installer, I skipped the partioning step.
As a result, the mount step failed and threw me into the Python debugger.
I don't know python, but from my experience with other programming
languages, I could understand more or less what the installer scripts
attempted to do.
With Alt-F3 (or F4, I'm not sure anymore), I even got a simple shell.
The script that interested me, was parteditor.py. It tries to detect
hardware by reading the /proc/ide filesystem.
When I browse that filesystem myself, I find out that there is only a
hdc (my cdrom) and an ide1 (ide bus 1) entry. The script obviously
expects to find at least one hard disk there as well (reasonably hda on
my system). It is not there however.
This seems to be very odd. Since there is no ide0, I presume the kernel
only detects one of my ide buses. Is this assumpton correct ?
Mac OS works fine though, so it seems to me that both ide buses are
quite ok.
Can anybody shed some light on this ? How can this happen ? Is there a
way to get around this, and install YDL anyway ?
Some extra information:
- harddisk : Seagate 20 Gb
- Mac OS : 9.2.1
Geert Janssens
Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to install YDL 2.1 on a beige G3/233 (Rev. 1), but am stuck now.
> Although I did already experiment a bit with LinuxPPC before, I still
> consider myself a newbie.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> I started with downloading the YDL 2.1 iso, and burning it on a Win2K
> machine with PlexTools to a CD-RW. I also tried to burn it to a CD-R,
> but that was never readable on my Mac.
>
> The CD-RW seems not to be bootable, so I manually installed BootX, and
> rebooted. In the BootX screen I selected the X-based ramdisk that got
> installed in my system folder, and booted into Linux.
>
> The GUI installer comes up, and I choose a custom installation. I can
> select the keyboard, mouse, and installation method.
>
> The when I select the Disk Partitioning step, the installer displays the
> error message mentioned in the subject already: No Harddisks found.
>
> When I try to skip the step, the next one fails, and offers me to show
> the Python debugger.
>
> I also tried the Text based installer, or using kernel 2.2.x. All return
> the same results.
>
> For completeness, here follows my partition map (from pdisk):
>
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
> #: type name length base ( size )
> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2:
> Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 64 3:
> Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 118 4:
> Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 5:
> Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 6: Apple_HFS
> MacOS 7340032 @ 1216 ( 3.5G)
> 7: Apple_HFS Misc 6266880 @ 7341248 ( 3.0G)
> 8: Apple_HFS Virtual PC 4403200 @ 13608128 ( 2.1G)
> 9: Apple_HFS Virtual PC II 4194304 @ 18011328 ( 2.0G)
> 10: Apple_Free Extra 17646128 @ 22205632 ( 8.4G)
>
> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=39851759 (19.0G)
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> Drivers-
> 1: @ 64 for 21, type=0x701
> 2: @ 118 for 34, type=0xf8ff
>
> Any clue anybody as to what might be wrong ?
>
> Thank you,
> Geert Janssens
>
>
>
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