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(hardy) powerpc installer lacks ide-pmac driver

Bug #189114 reported by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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Bug Description

The current hardy snapshot ISOs cannot be used to install on any powermac as the
ide-pmac driver is missing from the initrd, thus it won't find the CD-ROM.

There is currently no libata driver for the Apple "legacy" PATA IDE interfaces, so that driver
is always needed.

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh-kernel) wrote :

Note that this is needed on both powerpc and powerpc64

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Ben mentions the CD-ROM. It's also needed to see the hard drive too.

Mac Mini, Apple UniNorth ATA-6 controller.

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Tested and working in the 17-Feb-2008 19:03 build of powermac. I have a successful install/run of that drop of Hardy.

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

pretty sure this is fixed in the latest images. i was able to install with the alternate installer late weekend, and boot the live cd today with no workarounds.

Changed in linux-meta:
status: New → Fix Released
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