background story: i installed potato on my powerbook, no macos, made it bootable from the hard disk (yaboot) and booted in to do the configuration. everything loaded ok, and i got dumped into the setup script, went through and got to dselect, which choked on trying to read the secondary and tertiary cds, trashed my terminal and halted my machine in some wierd way. (die dselect die ...)
upon restart, the kernel started to load but hangs at: <other kernel messages> hda: Enabling MultiWord DMA 2 hda: IBM-DADA-26480, 6194MB w/460kB Cache, CHS=13424/15/63, (U)DMA hda: IBM-DADA-26480, 6194MB w/460kB Cache, CHS=13424/15/63, (U)DMA from booting the cd or the hard disk. i booted in with a mac os 9 cd and zeroed all the data on the hard disk, and tried booting the cd again. same problem. i then fully reinstalled os 9, and then tried booting the cd, and it worked (wtf?) and i installed debian again. now, from the sucessful install (a day later) i am getting the same hda: ... hang problem. think this could be hardware trouble? but then why would reinstalling macos 9 fix something? confused, brendan
