When I boot on gento liveCd 1.4rc7 my hard-drives aren't recognize by the system. The computer is a B&W G3-350Mhz Powermac with 576Mb Ram, two hd : one IBM 120Gb and one WD80Go. They were installed on an ACARD ATA-133 pci card, but as they were not recognized, I try with only one hd ( first with the 120go then with the 80Go) on the standard ata bus of the mac, but nothing make it. So Vladimir on irc told me to try with another distri cd...and with a Mandrake 8.0cd my two hd on the ata-133 Card were directly recognized.. I think the problem come from a missing driver for this type of card... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot on livecd 1.4rc7 Actual Results: gentoo boot but no hd in /dev Expected Results: really necessary ? Apple Powermac PPC G3-350 B&W, RAM 576Mb, ACARD ATA-133 pci card, Adaptec SCSI card, hd 120Gb IBM + 80Gb WD
hey, we're working on this. I am going to assign this bug to kain. This sounds very much like a kernel issue. I hope we'll be able to close this bug by next ppc livecd release. Thanks for feedback Piete
it's missing things from the .config (or as modules), acard is promise and needs the ' special udma feature' also enabled. This also holds true for Xserve machines (which use same chipset), and should probably be included in all the live cd kernels
IS there any reason to NOT include drivers in the LiveCD kernel? we have plenty of space on the CD right?
Well, if one enables all drivers, the chances that the kernel doesn't compile are *huge*. :-) I dropped by the ppc kernel guys and asked whether all the drivers that showed in menuconfig on ppc worked on ppc. Answer was: we don't know. I have spend an afternoon, enabling as much drivers as possible for the next ppc livecd. If you like to try out this kernel, go ahead and download the rc8 livecd from my homepage on dev.gentoo.org (http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/) It has been in test phase for about a month I'd say and so far nobody reported problems except from reiserfs being a bit flaky. Pieter
