-oldworld mac powercomputing powercenter pro, adaptec fast scsi aha-2930B, plus onboard 53c94, 2gb system drive.. -booting using bootx1.22 from macos8.6, using boot files from livecd, incl. ramdisk image. -can't partition drive after logging in as root, mac-fdisk -l reports nothing, /dev/sd* missing. -drive with 3 partitions, macos8.6 on last partition of 300mb. 1.4g 1st partition for root - unallocated space, 300mb 2nd partition for swap - unallocated space. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.copy boot files to Linux Kernels in for bootx in macos 2.boot linux with given bootx instructions, with livecd full in cd drive 3.try to partition using mac-fdisk.. Actual Results: no go... Expected Results: partition the drives for linux fs??
I was trying to help yarrix on this one, and I gave him an updated initrd with a aic7xxx and sd_mod in there, and it seemed to work, but he got piles of IO errors. Today, I dug up an old 2930CU-mac card that I have, which I think is almost the same as his, and I can't get it to work with aic7xxx or aic7xxx_old (IO errors too). yarrix, I remember you said it worked ok with debian and/or yellow dog... could you possibly give us some more info, or maybe a kernel config that worked?
I tried the YDL3.0 install, and it also identified aic7xxx pci card in hardware, allowed partitioning and format, but would not boot via bootx without the ramdisk image, or the boot only kernel (2.4), once the install was finished. When I removed the 2930 card, and plugged the drive back into the onboard 53c94 (or whatever it is actually), it booted fine. I read earlier somewhere, actually http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html#powercenterpro that the adaptec that ships with the unit does not support openfirmware. So I gave up on the card, and put it aside. YDL seems to be pretty stable so far, been running like almost a week...
So this actually was a broken driver or broken hardware problem. I'm closing this bug now. Pieter
