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

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Richard (MQ) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
what kernel is in use?
uname -r?
>
> Bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749392 submitted.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Richard (MQ)
> Linux user # 439271
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