On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On 10 Apr 2002, Paul Sabatino wrote: > > > I'm trying to install 8.2b2 on an 600 Mhz iBook. I attempted to > > partition the disk several different was and always got an error that it > > could not find the disk. So I dropped in to the shell and started poking > > around. Then I realized that the error wasn't due to the installer not > > finding partitions, it was due to not having /dev/hda at all. Running > > dmesg I find that on boot up it jumps right to hdb and says nothing > > about hda. This machine installs OS9 and OSX just fine, is there some > > firmware or kernel option that might help it find the correct device? > > > > Generally there is no magic involved in finding an IDE hard drive. IDE > support is built into the kernel. hdb on the iBook is the CD right? > > Stew Benedict > >
Correct hdb is the CD-RW drive. Paul Sabatino
