Re: Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?

2006-07-04 Thread Brian Durant
On Jul 4, 2006, at 00:47, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: I can't tell you where the controller is, but I can tell you that the description matches (i.e. the CD cannot be found). As far as I understand the issue (bug), it isn't that the CD is on the SATA controller, but rather that the SATA cont

Re: Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?

2006-07-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> I can't tell you where the controller is, but I can tell you that the > description matches (i.e. the CD cannot be found). As far as I > understand the issue (bug), it isn't that the CD is on the SATA > controller, but rather that the SATA controller somehow prevents the > loading of the

Re: Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?

2006-07-03 Thread Brian Durant
On Jul 3, 2006, at 13:45, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:02 +0200, Brian Durant wrote: I have tried using the above method, but actually can't see how this should work as there doesn't seem to be a way of loading the CD drivers before the SATA driver. A loop develops wi

Re: Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?

2006-07-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:02 +0200, Brian Durant wrote: > I have tried using the above method, but actually can't see how this > should work as there doesn't seem to be a way of loading the CD > drivers before the SATA driver. A loop develops with the selection of > the CD drivers, because th

Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?

2006-06-28 Thread Brian Durant
I have been spending everyday for the past couple of weeks trying to get a Debian based install on my G5 single (PowerMac 9.1). I have settled on Debian Sarge 3.1r2 as being the least problematic install to rectify as all Debian based distros have serious installation issues, at this time t