Re: No hard disk found by YaST during factory install from 12.2 build 0003 NET

On 27/02/12 17:45, Dinar Valeev wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Richard (MQ)<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I think a new thread is called for here.
>>
>> As mentioned somewhere in the thread "Booting
>> openSUSE-NET-ppc-Build0003-Media.iso" I'm having trouble installing factory
>> on my old 1999 G3 machine.
>>
>> I can boot the NET image as described in that thread, using a local copy of
>> the factory repo and vsftp. But YaST then reports no hard disc, and getting
>> a console with Alt-F2 and running pdisk confirms this. I assume the
>> necessary module is not being loaded, but not sure what to look for.
>>
>> The hardware is just fine, running mac OS-X and Opensuse 11.0 if I boot the
>> installed hard disc.
>>
>> Running lspci offers very few likely interfaces for the hd, apart from
>> several with "host bridge" in the name. Comparing the output from lsmod with
>> that from OSL 11.0 yields few clues either.
>
> If you have still oS11.0 you can run there hwinfo --disk and see which
> module is in use.

D'oh - I should have thought of that.

With OSL 11.0, "hwinfo --disk" reports ide-pmac and ide-disk. Booting 
current factory and using "start shell before YaST" option, modprobe'ing 
these gives fatal not-found errors for both.

Bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749392 submitted.

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Cheers
Richard (MQ)
Linux user # 439271
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