Has anyone ever installed SLES 9 on a PowerMac. I have read that we can do a Debian install and then install over that, but I was wondering if anyone has had any luck installing straight from the CD's. I can get to the install process and when it probes for the Hard Disk it reports an error that no Hard Disk were found and I have pulled off the boot.msg in recovery mode by mount my usb thumbdrive to the machine and copy the file to the thumbdrive.

ide0: Found Apple K2 ATA-6 controller, bus ID 3, irq 39
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-117D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0xe0000000841ce000-0xe0000000841ce007,0xe0000000841ce160 on irq 39
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.02 loaded.
sata_svw version 1.04
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0000000841D0000 ctl 0xE0000000841D0020 bmdma 0xE0000000841D0030 irq 0
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0000000841D0100 ctl 0xE0000000841D0120 bmdma 0xE0000000841D0130 irq 0
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0000000841D0200 ctl 0xE0000000841D0220 bmdma 0xE0000000841D0230 irq 0
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0000000841D0300 ctl 0xE0000000841D0320 bmdma 0xE0000000841D0330 irq 0
ata1 is slow to respond, please be patient
ata1 failed to respond (30 secs)
ata1: thread exiting
scsi0 : sata_svw
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000004)
ata2: thread exiting
scsi1 : sata_svw
ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000004)
ata3: thread exiting
scsi2 : sata_svw
ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000004)
ata4: thread exiting
scsi3 : sata_svw


Is there a sata driver that is not there and needs to be or what? Thanks in advance for any help

o yeah, I also see this in one of the other screens

insmod: can't read '/modules/sata.svw.ko':No Such File or Directroy

On a side note and not to discourage, but you may want to consider Ebay'ing that PowerPC asap. Get what you can for it now. The x86 is coming soon and PowerPC will be left in the hands of Superclusters and the like.

I am not trying to seem arrogant just helpful. I went down the PPCnix road a few times and it was almost always Head-ache. Yellow dog is the only OS that is out of the box ready to go for PPC in my opinion.

just two cents though. check out http://penguinppc.org/

We sorta have superclusters and the like that is why I am trying this and why I am trying Enterprise Linux. I have Debian and Gentoo running and I have several boxes running YDL, I am just wanting to try to get something up that has support where I can talk directly to engineers and developers. In my past experiences with Novell they seemed to have really good support for NetWare and I would assume they are intergrating the same support with SLES.

The Macs already have Intel, and Apple has to keep up ppc support for G'vment contracts and such.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...A-4379F9F86C98

Well. The above link might entice you/your company over to SUSE entirely. Can't beat 1-hour response time for under $1,500.

I do know that SUSE offers free installation support now for any of their Linux products too. This would also help you out in this situation.

Yeah we have been on the phone with them everyday and sending e-mails back and forth. We have it but we had to do a Debian install and go on the top of that by doing some tweaks. We can also do it by doing a net install, but we would really like the capabilities of doing this using the Install CD's so we can build our head node from scratch and then using system imager to create images to install compute nodes from. I was really wanting to get this going before they got us a fix, this has been going on for over a week and it is all starting to get frustrating.