[slackintosh-users] Re: missing hda on xserve dual-g4

Adrian Ulrich wrote:

Hi,
So today I tried to test slackintosh on a dual-g4 tray-loading xserve, and when I type mac-fdisk /dev/hda, it won't let me initialize the partition table--says it's 'read-only'... realized it was talking about the slackintosh install cd, and that it didn't see the internal drive. 

Did you try /dev/hdc ?


It would also be helpful if you could post the dmesg output

Regards,
 Adrian
Before I declared the internal ata drive in the xserve "unseen," I had tried: 

   /dmesg | grep hd
   hda: LG CD_ROM CRN-8245B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
   hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2
   hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
   /


But here is the dmesg output:

   No Bus:ttyvf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyw9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywa
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywe
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyx9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyxa
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyxb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyxc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyxd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyxe
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyxf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyy9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyya
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyyb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyyc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyyd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyye
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyyf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyz9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyza
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyzb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyzc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyzd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyze
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyzf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttya9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyaa
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyab
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyac
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyad
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyae
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyaf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyb9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyba
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttybb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttybc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttybd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttybe
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttybf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyc9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyca
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttycb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttycc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttycd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyce
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttycf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyd9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyda
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttydb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttydc
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttydd
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyde
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttydf
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye8
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttye9
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyea
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyeb
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyec
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyed
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyee
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyef
   Generic RTC Driver v1.07
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:rtc
   Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:nvram
   pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
   ttyS0 at MMIO 0x80013020 (irq = 22) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS0
   ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 23) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS1
   RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 20480K size 1024 blocksize
   loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:lo
   MacIO PCI driver attached to Keylargo chipset
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.80000000:mac-io
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00040000:interrup
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00000050:gpio
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00013000:escc
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00010000:i2s
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00015000:timer
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00016000:via-pmu
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00018000:i2c
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.0001f000:ata-4
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00013020:ch-a
   PM: Adding info for macio:0.00013000:ch-b
   input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:pmu
   adb: starting probe task...
   adb: finished probe task...
   Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
   ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
   ide-pmac: cannot find MacIO node for Kauai ATA interface
   ide0: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-4 controller, bus ID 2, irq 19
   Probing IDE interface ide0...
   hda: LG CD-ROM CRN-8245B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide0
   hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2
   ide0 at 0xf1028000-0xf1028007,0xf1028160 on irq 19
   PM: Adding info for ide:0.0
   hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
   Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
   ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
   mesh: configured for synchronous 5 MB/s
   st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
   usbmon: debugfs is not available
   ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
   PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:08.0 (0000 -> 0002)
   ohci_hcd 0001:11:08.0: OHCI Host Controller
   ohci_hcd 0001:11:08.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
   ohci_hcd 0001:11:08.0: irq 27, io mem 0x80081000
   PM: Adding info for usb:usb1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.1_ep00
   usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   PM: Adding info for usb:1-0:1.0
   hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
   hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.1_ep81
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.1
   PCI: Enabling device 0001:11:09.0 (0000 -> 0002)
   ohci_hcd 0001:11:09.0: OHCI Host Controller
   ohci_hcd 0001:11:09.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
   ohci_hcd 0001:11:09.0: irq 28, io mem 0x80080000
   PM: Adding info for usb:usb2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.1_ep00
   usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   PM: Adding info for usb:2-0:1.0
   hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
   hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.1_ep81
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.1
   Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
   usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
   PM: Adding info for usb:1-1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.2_ep00
   usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   PM: Adding info for usb:1-1:1.0
   hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
   hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.2_ep81
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.2
   usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
   PM: Adding info for usb:2-1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.2_ep00
   usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   PM: Adding info for usb:2-1:1.0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.2_ep01
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.2_ep81
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.2
   usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
   PM: Adding info for usb:1-1.1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep00
   usb 1-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
   PM: Adding info for usb:1-1.1:1.0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep81
   PM: Adding info for usb:1-1.1:1.1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3_ep82
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.3
   scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:host0
   usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
   USB Mass Storage support registered.
   usb-storage: device found at 2
   usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
   input: Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard as /class/input/input1
   input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard] 
on usb-0001:11:08.0-1.1
   input: Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard as /class/input/input2
   input: USB HID v1.10 Device [Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard] 
on usb-0001:11:08.0-1.1
   usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
   drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
   usbcore: registered new interface driver appletouch
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:psaux
   mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-0
   PowerMac i2c bus pmu 2 registered
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-1
   PowerMac i2c bus pmu 1 registered
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-2
   PowerMac i2c bus mac-io 0 registered
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-3
   PowerMac i2c bus uni-n 1 registered
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:i2c-4
   PowerMac i2c bus uni-n 0 registered
   oprofile: using ppc/7450 performance monitoring.
   TCP cubic registered
   NET: Registered protocol family 1
   NET: Registered protocol family 17
   input: PMU as /class/input/input3
   RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
   RAMDISK: Loading 20480KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... 
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   EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
   VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
   Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k init
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcs1
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcsa1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcs1
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcsa1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:0
   scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WDC WD32 00JB-00KFA0      08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
   PM: Adding info for scsi:0:0:0:0
   SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
   sda: Write Protect is off
   sda: Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
   sda: assuming drive cache: write through
   SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB)
   sda: Write Protect is off
   sda: Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
   sda: assuming drive cache: write through
    sda: [mac] sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 
sda13
   sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
   sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:1
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:2
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:3
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:4
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:5
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:6
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:7
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:7
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:1
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:1
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:2
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:3
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:4
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:4
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:5
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:5
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:6
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:6
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:target0:0:7
   PM: Removing info for No Bus:target0:0:7
   usb-storage: device scan complete
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa2
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs3
   PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa3
   kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
   EXT3 FS on sda8, internal journal
   EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
   //
It appears that the output was longer than the virtual filesystem of the installer cd could handle: The sda8 is just a partition on external drive that I mounted so I could have a place to save the output of dmesg...
My current course of action (unless corrected by your responses) is to try to first install slackintosh on an external usb drive, so I can hopefully boot the xserve off of this, with full r/w capablities, and capture entire dmesg, if it still can't find the internal ata. 

stumped.

--Everett

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