Re: Issues with firewire hard drive

2004-01-24 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 24 2004, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Would anyone have the tip that will make the damn thing work with a > recent kernel ? I think that the way that recent 2.4 kernels work is different from earlier kernels. Does the problem occur if you rescan the scsi bus? There's an script (rescan-scsci-bus.

Re: Issues with firewire hard drive

2004-01-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would anyone have the tip that will make the damn thing work with a >> recent kernel ? > > Even with the most recent 2.6.2-rcX-benX kernel ? OK, it indeed works with 2.6.2-rc1-ben1. I finally decided to build a 2.6 kernel, now I have to set up a cou

Re: Issues with firewire hard drive

2004-01-24 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 17:42, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Would anyone have the tip that will make the damn thing work with a > >> recent kernel ? > > > > Even with the most recent 2.6.2-rcX-benX kernel ? > > I didn't test 2.6. > > I need my laptop w

Re: Issues with firewire hard drive

2004-01-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would anyone have the tip that will make the damn thing work with a >> recent kernel ? > > Even with the most recent 2.6.2-rcX-benX kernel ? I didn't test 2.6. I need my laptop working next week, I can't break it now, so 2.6 will have to wait (and

Re: Issues with firewire hard drive

2004-01-24 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 16:59, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a LaCie PocketDriver 60 GB to work with my PB G4 > (first gen). > > Everything is fine with a 2.4.20-benh kernel, but it completely fails > with any later version. It never gets past the point of logging into > the sbp2

Issues with firewire hard drive

2004-01-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hi, I'm trying to get a LaCie PocketDriver 60 GB to work with my PB G4 (first gen). Everything is fine with a 2.4.20-benh kernel, but it completely fails with any later version. It never gets past the point of logging into the sbp2 device. Would anyone have the tip that will make the damn thing

2 kernel issues: firewire hard drive, ethernet (addendum)

2003-06-15 Thread Matt Price
sorry, forgotto attach the config files for the two self-compiled kernels mentioned in my last mail. Here they are -- thanks! -- matt # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # # CONFIG_UID16 is not set # CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_H

2 kernel issues: firewire hard drive, ethernet

2003-06-15 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, In a recent debian reinstall, trying to get a couple of things to work right together. I have an 80-gig firewire hard drive, works fine under OS9, connected to my B&W G3, which now runs Debian Woody (mostly) from a SCSI internal hard drive (the drive I currently have in ATA is br

Re: Install debian on a iBook with external FireWire hard drive

2003-04-07 Thread Sébastien Maret
Maybe you're trying the wrong partition number. Try dir fw:1,\ to see if that is the case; if so, vary the number until you found the right one (2 or 8 are nice tries). I get: > fw:1,\ method not found ihandle=ffbc8080 phandle=ff974af8 DIR method failed > ok and it's the same thi

Re: Install debian on a iBook with external FireWire hard drive

2003-04-06 Thread Segher Boessenkool
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to install debian on a iBook. I have an external firewire hard drive on which I want to put debian. I created a HFS+ partition and put the following files: yaboot, yaboot.conf, linux.bin and root.bin. Now I try to boot on this partition. What is the openfirmwire

Re: Install debian on a iBook with external FireWire hard drive

2003-04-06 Thread Sébastien Maret
Hi, I'm sorry but I'm completely new to debian, and I'm not sure to understand what you say :-) I followed the instructions I found on debian site, and I managed to boot linux on my internal hard drive. Now I want to install debian on my firewire hard drive, but the installer

Re: Install debian on a iBook with external FireWire hard drive

2003-04-05 Thread florian
hi! sure about that? i asked the same question some week ago, and i think it was michael who pointed out that it was, if even possible, very hard to do.. ciao! florian On Sam, 2003-04-05 at 13:18, Claas Langbehn wrote: > Hi! > > > You can use the graphical boot menu. > You get it by pressin

Install debian on a iBook with external FireWire hard drive

2003-04-05 Thread bastien . maret
I try to install debian on a iBook. I have an external firewire hard drive on which I want to put debian. I created a HFS+ partition and put the following files: yaboot, yaboot.conf, linux.bin and root.bin. Now I try to boot on this partition. What is the openfirmwire command to do this ? I tried

Re: firewire hard drive

2002-03-04 Thread Nicolas Lopez
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:18:21PM +0100, Herv? MATHIEU wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to install debian on a external firewire hard drive and to > boot it normaly ? I have a powerbook G4. (the openfirmware is updated). Boot is no problem, OF handles it pretty well. Linux, howev

firewire hard drive

2002-03-04 Thread Hervé MATHIEU
Hi, is it possible to install debian on a external firewire hard drive and to boot it normaly ? I have a powerbook G4. (the openfirmware is updated). Thanks, Hervé