Re: harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook

2004-01-09 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
but my http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/PBG412.html is at least one answer. Thanks for your answer, but this link is broken. Try again; I've symlinked that to the real thing. Are there precompiled kernels somewhere? Or lodable modules perhaps? If another Al G4 user doesn't beat me to it,

harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook

2004-01-09 Thread Bernhard Lang
hello all I'm a new list member but not at all new to Linux (using a G3PowerBook with LinuxPPC since 2000). I just bought a new G4 15'' and got stuck during Linux installation (actually, just after the starting point): Booting my G4 PowerBook (model 5.2, PPC G4 1.1 1GHz, boot rom 4.71f1) the

Re: harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook

2004-01-09 Thread Bernhard Lang
I think there are now better resources than what I wrote a year ago, but my http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/PBG412.html is at least one answer. Thanks for your answer, but this link is broken. (The problem is that the G4's ATA-100 chip is not supported in the Woody kernel, so you have to

Re: harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook

2004-01-09 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
Are there precompiled kernels somewhere? Or lodable modules perhaps? If another Al G4 user doesn't beat me to it, I'll post my current kernel when I get to work. Okay, http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/vmlinux-2.4-2004 has the kernel I'm currently using, compiled in November. It's not

Re: harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook

2004-01-09 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
Does anyone have an idea what might be going on, or where I could find further information? I think there are now better resources than what I wrote a year ago, but my http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/PBG412.html is at least one answer. I should post a new kernel, though -- the one there breaks

Re: harddisk inacessible in G4PowerBook

2004-01-09 Thread Charles-Edouard Ruault
Hi Bernhard, i just went through it i followed the instructions on from this page : http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php the kernel linked on this page works for me. Good luck. Regards Charles-Edouard Ruault On Jan 9, 2004, at 5:28 PM, Bernhard Lang wrote: I