problems booting x86 [Re: x86 and ethernet]

Was clearly thinking about something else when I wrote the topic...

On 19 Oct 2005, at 14:49, Graham J Lee wrote:

> and found that it doesn't pick up the root device automatically  
> (looks like a known issue from the install notes), but that I can't  
> set the root device because it doesn't acknowledge the USB keyboard  
> (although it can be used at the BIOS).  I'll try to borrow a PS/2  
> keyboard and see if I can get any further...

Now got the keyboard working, but still can't get it to boot (even  
specifying the rootdev=disk0s1).  Here's the output from around the  
hang:

AppleGenericPCATADriver: Port 0x1f0, IRQ 14
Still waiting for root device
AppleGenericPCATADriver: super start failed
Still waiting for root device [ad infinitum]

I know little C++ and less IOKit, but as it's not  
AppleGenericPCATADriver::start or IOService::start that's failing, it  
must be IOATAController::start.  Is there any way I could enable DLOG  
output on the install CD's kernel, to see what's up?  I expect the  
end result will be that the hardware's unsupported, but it'd be  
informative if not necessarily useful to get more on it.

Cheers,

Graham.