Re: Work around for SATA driver bug in Sarge 3.1r2 (how)?
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:02 +0200, Brian Durant wrote:
> I have tried using the above method, but actually can't see how this
> should work as there doesn't seem to be a way of loading the CD
> drivers before the SATA driver. A loop develops with the selection of
> the CD drivers, because the SATA drivers have already loaded and the
> CD-ROM still cannot be detected, despite only choosing the above
> quoted CD drivers. Can someone walk me through this, please?
>
> For those of you that don't understand why I don't just install Etch
> beta 2, I can say that I have tried that. There is an issue with Etch
> not being able to detect USB keyboards (and maybe mice as well)
> during the install. This isn't in the errata and I would consider it
> a bug. However, as I don't want to run a 'testing" system anyway, it
> is just another reason to get a Sarge install to work.
The CD on this machine shouldn't be on the SATA controller... it's
supposed to be on the good'old Apple PowerMac IDE controller. I haven't
seen any kind of conflict so far with those...
Ben.
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