On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 18:42 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: > Thanks to Michael and Nathan for your help so far. I've > tried /dev/hda,c and e as being root upon rebooting, and every time I > get a kernel panic. I'm not totally sure why, but I've been looking > into the config to make sure I have things enabled properly (already > found that I hadn't put support for my IDE interface, but that wasn't > the only problem) Any other gotchas? I'm completely new to the Mac > hardware, so this is kind of bewildering to me!
Writing in to give more details - I do have the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_ATA100FIRST set in the kernel, and hda is still showing up as hda. I also do not see any lines in the boot reporting that the hard drive has been detected (though they scroll by pretty quickly and it's hard to tell - is there a way to see what the dmesg was for a kernel that didn't finish booting due to a kernel panic?) The panic is the famous "Cannot open root device "hda8" or unknown-block(0,0)". Well, the cdrom doesn't have an hda8 of course, so this isn't surprising. What I'm attempting to discover is what I am missing in the kernel config to get my hard drive correctly supported. Further suggestions? Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com If there was any justice, my face would be on a bunch of crappy merchandise! -- Homer Simpson Flaming Moe's -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
