Installing Mandrake L. 9.1 PPC on beige Mac G3, can't find Seagate harddisk

From: Ronny (ronny-w_at_frisurf.no)
Date: 08/24/03 

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:11:15 +0200

Hello,

I am about to install Linux 9.1 PPC on my G3 Macintosh. The installation is
started from BootX an the installation-CD is red, but my harddisk is not
found.

I have changed the origianl harddisk to a 40 GB Seagate U series 5, model
ST340823A which works perfectly under MacOS.

As long as the harddisk is not autodetected, I try to select "Seagate"
manually. But when I select "next" in the installation program afterwards,
it shows "An error occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create
new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem".

Do anyone know how I can solve this problem? I guess it is a way to manually
give in the data for the harddisk like in Windows (sectors etc)? But I have
not found a way to get into such a mode.

Or is it e.g. a kernel argument I can give BootX to tell what kind of
harddisk I have?

Thanks in advance for your help

Best regards
Ronny

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