Install on PwerMac G5 fails to find CD-ROM

[Matthew Knepley]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: ubuntu-8.10-server-powerpc.iso
Date: Mon May  4 13:53:09 CDT 2009

Machine: PowerMac G5
Processor:G5 quadcore
Memory:
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [ ]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [E]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:    [ ]
Install tasks:          [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

Detection of the CD-ROM drive fails. I can verify using /proc/devices that the
block device ide0 exists, but I cannot find it in /dev. I can see from dmesg
and also from /proc/ide/ide0 that this device is the cdrom. Without a
/dev entry,
I cannot get the installer to manually recognize this device. What should I give
to the installer manually to make it recognize the CD-ROM? Also, the
cdrom kernel
module is loaded.

  Thanks,

     Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments
lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20090504/d6123024/attachment.html>