Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [regression] 2.6.39-rc[1-3] fail to boot on G5 PowerMac | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:54:49 +1000 |
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On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:25 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Something worth trying: turn off CONFIG_IDE. That's what I need to > boot 2.6.39-rc[1-3] on PowerPC G5. > > I know Jens has been fixing problems with IDE versus his plug/unplug > changes, but it's still not fixed for me in rc3. > > In other mail http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/614 > I see Linus recommending his post-rc3 commit 6631e635c65d > but I've not tried that myself yet.
Well, the disk is SATA so it's CONFIG_ATA/libata, which works fine here, unless you somewhat replaced your CD-ROM with a legacy IDE disk :-) Or maybe the problem is related to the CD-ROM drive. There's a libata driver for it nowadays, so you can use PATA_MACIO instead of IDE_PMAC
Cheers, Ben.
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