| Summary: | Mimimal PPC 2005.1 cannot find built-in DVD-ROM (on a Mac G3) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Mike Hammill <michael> |
| Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Gentoo Release Team <releng> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | PPC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Mike Hammill
2005-12-06 15:44:50 UTC
Is that DVD-ROM SCSI? If it is, you'll need doscsi on the command line. Otherwise, I'll leave this for more experienced PPC people to comment. (In reply to comment #1) > Is that DVD-ROM SCSI? If it is, you'll need doscsi on the command line. > Otherwise, I'll leave this for more experienced PPC people to comment. This Matshita DVD-ROM is a ATAPI drive. On the chance it uses a SCSI protocol, I tried "doscsi" but it didn't make a difference. I also tried using "doscsi scandelay" as mentioned in one of the thread I referred to. Also, I tried "debug" with and without the other two. No luck. Since this was the original DVD-ROM that came with the G3, I guess someone else would have run into this already. Well, hopefully, anyway.... Ideas? I tried every combination now that I can think of but absolutely no luck with 2005.1 minimal CD. I get the same sort of error with the 2005.0 minimal CD, but have had success in occaisonally getting it to get to the "livecd root#" prompt. What works for the 2005.0 min. CD is "G3 doscsi" and I also had luck with "G3 doscsi video=aty128fb debug". I one case it actually found the bootable part of the CD and said on its own: "CD medium found" and mounted /newroot/dev/cdroms/cdrom0. However, even getting this far with the 2005.0 min CD, when I look at /dev there is a /dev/hda (the CD-ROM), but no /dev/hdc (the ATA harddrive). This is a relatively large hard drive (300GB), but Mac OS X 10.4 sees it (as at least a 128GB drive), and the Ubtuntu LiveCD also sees it. It occurs to me that a possible (though somewhat sad) workaround is to boot off the Ubuntu LiveCD, partition the hard disk, bring down the Gentoo stage3 and snapshot, then proceed building the thing for Gentoo. Am I going down the wrong road for a workaround? Advice kindly appreciated. Nice to know that the ubuntu-CD works. I wonder what they do different... But you can boot that CD and use a shell for partitioning and changing into the chroot environment with a downloaded Gentoo tar-ball. I don't know what the ubuntu folks are doing different. From what I could tell, the problem on the Gentoo side seems to be related to udev. Thanks for letting me know I could go ahead with the Gentoo install after getting the Gentoo "goodies" (snapshot, stage3) via Ubuntu. I'm a bit suspicious that it will work to set up LVM under Ubuntu and expect it to work with Gentoo, though. Another reason to hope that the Gentoo PPC CDs will work on PowerMac G3s in the 2006.0 version. By the way, I *was* able to install Gentoo from the minimal Gentoo 2005.1 CD on a PowerMac G4. It's been up humming along nicely for several days now. This was a "franken-mac" (zip from a pc, cdrom from a unix box) but there was no problem with the Gentoo CD and that machine. The G3 with the ship-to-order DVD, though, which was the subject of this bug, is still a no go. Try "scandelay" as an option. It adds an additoinal 10 seconds to the detection so slower media can be found properly. Good news: scandelay fixed the problem on the a *different* G3 (the one with a built-to-order CD-ROM drive instead of a built-to-order DVD-ROM). Great! Booted without problem with minimal Live CD 2005.1. That makes my G4 and one G3 Gentooable! Bad news: using scandelay made no difference on the Mac G3 I have with built-to-order (via Apple) DVD-ROM. I tried multiple times making sure I spelled scandelay correctly. I know the DVD-ROM is OK, as I went ahead and installed Fedora Core 4 on that machine via an FC4 install DVD last week. The OpenFirmware on that machine also seems OK. With the same Gentoo minimal Live CD 2005.1 that works with scandelay in the *different* G3 noted above, I get the same errors on this machine as previously noted. Unfortunately, this bug still stands (for this configuration). Thought I should say something as you're probably working on the 2006 Live CD now. Please try using "dobladecenter" instead and see if that helps. The next version of genkernel will have "dobladecenter" renamed to "slowusb" since that's what it really was designed for, but it adds some additional pauses in some other locations that could help with this. I'm simply curious if the device node just isn't being created quick enough. No resposne in over 3 months, so I'm going to assume that "dobladecenter" worked. If this is not the case and you have time to assist in testing, please feel free to REOPEN this bug. |
