The Blue/White Apple PowerMac G3 and early G4's use a cmd64x compatible IDE disk controller. E.g. lspci shows...
01:01.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 (rev 07) Unfortunately the default pmac32 configuration does not include this driver and so PowerMac G3's can't load a root filesystem. This is an issue on a least Ubuntu since version 9.04, which uses the default config as a starting point. Signed-off-by: Lawrence Rust <lawrence at softsystem.co.uk> diff -uprN a/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig --- a/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig 2010-05-16 23:17:36.000000000 +0200 +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig 2010-07-03 20:11:10.000000000 +0200 @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set -# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5520 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev