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

Dinar Valeev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.ppc
Message-ID <CADqALGRU34yct8B3xom9LGac5ofQn+VhwcTeOZ=Bt=-YA_CWxQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
It seems CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC is needed for ppc kernel (32bit).

ppc64 have this module built.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Dinar Valeev <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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