I've got a Toshiba HDD2168 (20Gb) HD. I booted DI_EFIKA off of a USB drive and installed debian on one partition of this HD (the other is waiting for QNX). Everything goes according to plan...

But then I reboot and OFW can't find the HD. So of course I can't "boot hd0:6 /boot/kernel_efika" as I want to. I've unplugged the HD and looked at it on a linux box (with a USB-IDE cable), and I can mount both ext2 filesystems just fine:



I can also boot off the USB drive (into DI_EFIKA), then drop to a shell and mount the HD from within that shell, and everything is fine.

I've tried the HD both on-board and with the IDE-USB, same result.

So how do I get the OFW to recognize the HD so that I can boot off of it?

I had same problem with a 2.5" samsung drive in my Pegasos 2 - I was unable to boot from the drive. The OF was even unable to see the drive but worked when I boot from CD or another HD. Funny thing is the same drive works fine in my Pegasos 1 with the old 0.1b firmware.

I'm beginning to think that more things have changed between the pegasus and efika than the people writing the documents think.

e.g. I was scouring for graphics cards listed as working with the Pegasus in the EFIKA book. I went through four before I found one that worked in graphical modes -- this may be the QNX and debian installers, also, I suppose.

In case anyone is interested, the first one had a radeon 9250 chipset (but wasn't that model, so maybe it doesn't count). The second two were SIS 6326's, one was DOA and one gave me a BIOS Banner but only worked in text mode. Finally, I broke down and bought an AGP Radeon 9200 SE - no dice, not even text mode on that one. Luckily, I stopped by a place I usually don't go (CompUSA) and saw a Radeon 9250, and picked it up, and it works fine. Whew, shouldn't be this hard :)

try "boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika"

Wouldn't help if the HD isn't found by the OF so if "ls /pci/ide" doesn't show the drive he won't be able to boot at all.

I don't think the problem is that the OF can't find the harddisk, just that it's not where you expect it. It seems that the numbering is a bit odd, so it shows as hd instead of hd0.
That's why I suggested to try boot hd:6 boot/kernel_efika

No, I've checked devalias and definitely have the correct device. When I 'ls hd' or 'ls hd:0' I hear the disk seek.

Hi Kevin, we have the very same HD and it works. :)

You are trying to access the second disk (hd0) while you probably only have one disk on the ATA connector (hd). Please check in the EFIKA How-To on page 5 section III.5 ( http://www.efika.de/download/Efika.readme.pdf ).

If you still have trouble please email support@efika.de directly. You will have an answer! 8)

R&B :)

Perhaps I got my logs mixed up - I've had this HD and a USB key as hd and hd0 in both orientations (HD on-board or HD and USB on USB) - in one of them, ls hd does nothing and in the other ls hd0 does nothing - it follows the HD. OK, I'll follow up with support and report back here if I get anything useful - thanks!