PPC mac mini (http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/lspci-v) can't install as the kernel can't find the local hard disk. Unknown how long this has been this way (I only turn on the ppc machines at release time. Our ample user base would have informed us if they stopped working at some point right?)
The pmac_ide driver in 2.6.23-0.45.rc0.git16.fc8 was working, at least on PowerBook. Will attempt to reproduce with newer kernels, and on a Mini.
This seems to effect my G5 and it's IDE DVD drive as well.
I've had no luck with ide_pmac for a long time; see bug 224642 for some possibly-related discussion.
This could be the same problem as bug 250306. If so the fix is in the latest kernel (Jul 31 2007) that contains the EDD boot fix. * Tue Jul 31 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2> ... - Re-enable CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS to fix ybin
Ah, that's possible. I had interpreted the bug report literally and had checked that the current kernel really does find the hard disk. Perhaps stupidly, I hadn't thought that it could be just the lack of /proc/ide causing problems in userspace. My crappy DSL line is still working on downloading rawhide, so I hadn't got as far as actually trying the install in the mini yet. And since people have been asking me for a few days when there'll be a rawhide install tree again, I assume it isn't going to be installable when I _do_ finish fetching it?
Could be it. I wish the tree was installable, but alas. We got install images for i386 and x86_64, something failed for ppc. Shocking. Will look into it at some point, have test1 to prepare.
IDE seems fine on current (pre-F8Test2) rawhide on my G5. Jesse?
Yep, looks fine.