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Date: 21 Mar 2002 16:24:17 -0500 From: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) To: Subject: Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 04:17, Valentin Podlovchenko wrote: > I've bought new 14,1" iBook month ago and had the same problem > it seems that new iBook hardware and linux kernels work not properly > each with other (at least some 2.4.X kernel which I've tried to boot > with) The problem is when you boot from CD linux kernel really doesn't > see any hard drives!!!, Note that you can't just boot with any random kernel into the Debian installer. It needs to have a number of options set (and not set). The most important one is that you can't have CONFIG_DEVFS set, or the installer will fail in lots of subtle and not-so-subtle ways. One of those ways is that it will never see any hard disks. In retrospect, displaying a warning about this on boot would have been a good idea, but it's too late for that now... -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
