New Install of Debian of PPC G4 not booting with repeated message "drive not ready.."
I just installed Debian onto a PowerPC G4 Tower with two hard drives. I left OS X on one of the drives and reformatted and installed Debian on the other, using the installer from the 60Mb ISO from the Debian website.
The installation had no issues and it starts yaboot and Debian no problem. After about 2 minutes of the booting up process, it starts to output this, every five seconds: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: drive not ready for command While this happens, other things still continue load and it outputs occasional messages and even gets to "Debian Login:" where if you type really quickly and hit enter, it takes it and prompts for "Password:" right after the next round of the above messages. I have not been able to completely log in yet. I can start up into the shell as root with "Linux single" with no problems. Can anybody please help with this? If I could guess, I think this might have something to do with the second Mac OS Formatted Hard drive. I have considered unplugging that drive and testing it that way, but I am looking for a solution to turn off whatever script is running that every five seconds and failing, regardless of what it is trying to do. Thank you, Jeff |
On /etc/fstab, what's the layout?
Which drive is not ready? If it's the one which has the most trouble, then you should consider only using it for Apple,/boot, or swap and the reliable drive for /usr and /home. |
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I'm guessing that hdc has the hfs(+) volume on it.
You'll either need to add the hfs toolset or to edit out with # on the fstab entry to prevent debian from trying to mount it. The directory of /lib/modules/<release|use the active kernel architecture on your machine>/kernel/ look in fs for the module. |
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Thank you for your help. |
Sorry about the delay here.
The location for the mount points can be found in /etc/fstab Code:
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/lib/modules/your_kernel-type/kernel/fs/hfs/hfs.ko Code:
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modprobe #use the proper filesystems from the cat /etc/fstab output# http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/relea...ve-powerpc.iso I'll be connected in a week or two with a constant connection. If you are still having trouble, just pm me and I'll let you know when I can give you a live help session. Again, sorry about the delay. |
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