Re: ibook G4 no hd

[Martin <martin@10ergang.de>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:21:58PM +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
> Hello
> I have a probelm with the new ibook g4. When I want to install via 
> yaboot,
> but the debian installation programm doesn't detect my hard disk.
> I am working with
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/
> Perhaps the kernel is to old and doesn't detect my ide-controller?
> Have you any idea what i can do? I am new to debian-ppc...
> 
> thank you very much
> matze
> 

Hi,

on the new powerbook the hdd is connected to the secondary master.
Can you switch to the console (ALT+F2) and enter fdisk -l /dev/hdc

The debian-installer searches for a hdd on /dev/hda only!
So you need to partition the disk and create the file-systems manually.

regards,

	Martin