Derrik Pates wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 03:44:10PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote:
I've been doing a little more work on this. As far as I can tell, the
error in the debian packaged kernels is because the kernel modules
included in the 2.6 series kernels are different than the ones in the
2.4 kernels. The Silicon Image IDE controller that's in my Rev 2 B&W
isn't compiled in.
I'm guessing that's a separate PCI card you have in your unit? I'm running
Debian (currently sid) on my blue & white G3 (rev. 2, 350 MHz CPU). The
onboard Ultra ATA-capable IDE controller is a CMD646.
Hmm. lspci says that it's a Silicon Image (formerly CMD) model. I just
compiled both drivers in to be safe.
Can you boot it into single user mode (by appending 'single' to the kernel
command line)? Or boot directly into /bin/sh (by appending 'init=/bin/sh'),
and make sure the device nodes exist, or at least try to determine what's
happening? It sounds like either something's not right in the udev
configuration, or maybe in inittab, I'm not really sure.
I can get in via SSH. It looks like the tty nodes in /dev are using the
devfs style nomenclature (/dev/vc/1, /dev/vc/2) rather than the standard
nomenclature I'm looking for (/dev/tty1, /dev/tty2). I do have udev
installed, but the last kernel I compiled had devfs support so it seems
to be sticking around.
I suppose I need to either tell inittab to look at /dev/vc/1 for the
terminal, or I need to get udev to put it in the proper place. Do you
know how to do either of those?
Strangely I've run Debian on mine since I got it, and I've run Debian on a
G3 previously, and it's never given me any trouble.
That is strange. I've never had a problem with Debian on PPC hardware --
I've installed it on a dozen or so machines, including two with the
exact same processor at this thing (a G3/400 Pismo Powerbook and iMac DV
SE) and never hit a snag. This particular machine just has me flummoxed.
Oh, and in case anyone from d-i is reading this, the etch netinst image
doesn't work at _all_ -- doesn't even detect the IDE controller. I had
to install from an old stable CD I had lying around.
--Matt
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