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crsh1976
03-02-2003, 07:15 PM
i had the unfortunate pleasure of finding out how mandrake makes it difficult (impossible?) to install from a scsi cd-rom drive; despite giving bootx extra arguments like "cdrom=/dev/scd0", i get the same error over and over, "no cd-rom device found". the installer then asks what driver it should load to gain access to scsi devices, i tried both 'mac53c94.o' and 'mesh.o' to no avail, "ismod failed" and "no cd-rom device found" is all i get.
the machine is a powermac 6500/250, which has a 4gb ATA drive and a SCSI mat****a cd drive
any insight?
Hitchhiker
03-06-2003, 12:48 AM
I was experiencing the same problem with my 7500.
Have you tried older versions?
DarkJedi9
03-06-2003, 12:56 AM
I thought the way to pass the scsi boot argument was /dev/hdx=scsi, not =/dev/scd0. I'm guessing your CD drive is /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, but that may not be the case.
DarkJedi9
03-06-2003, 12:59 AM
Actually, it looks like the proper way is:
hdc=ide-scsi
or hdd=ide-scsi (or I guess hdb=ide-scsi, but that one is unlikely).
Originally posted by DarkJedi9
Actually, it looks like the proper way is:
hdc=ide-scsi
or hdd=ide-scsi (or I guess hdb=ide-scsi, but that one is unlikely). No, that's for enabling the SCSI emulation needed for an IDE/ATAPI CD burner. crsh1976 has an actual SCSI device, so the CD-ROM's designation should be /dev/scd0.
The /dev/hdx designations only apply to IDE drives.
DarkJedi9
03-06-2003, 04:37 PM
Originally posted by DMR
No, that's for enabling the SCSI emulation needed for an IDE/ATAPI CD burner. crsh1976 has an actual SCSI device, so the CD-ROM's designation should be /dev/scd0.
The /dev/hdx designations only apply to IDE drives.
My mistake. Thanks for the correction.
crsh1976
03-07-2003, 09:35 AM
so i was right with "cdrom=/dev/scd0", but it doesn't work for some reason.. maybe reverting to an older version would work (when i installed yellowdog 2.3, the 2.4 kernel wouldnt work, only the 2.2 one)
thing is, i tried both the 2.4 and 2.2, with no video and with ati-64 video, gui and text-only, nothing works so far
i sent an email to mandrake a week ago asking them if MDK PPC was installable from a scsi device, as they claim old-world PCI macs are supported (and most of them have scsi cd-rom drives, eventhough some old-world mac users seem to have no problem, perhaps this 6500/250 is an oddity), but no response so far.
thanks for everybody's help!