Installation Karmic Koala when hard disk is not recognised (G3 B&W)

This is final procedure for successfully install cmd64x driver:

Installation procedure must be done in two stages.

Stage 1 – prior Installation (on LiveCD)

Steps:

1. Startup LiveCD and wait to be booted up.
2. When system is up, unpack attached cmd64x-0.1.tar.gz archive and install cmd64x-dkms_0.1_all.deb package
3. Open terminal and type:
   
   Code:

   cd /usr/src/cmd64x-0.1
   sudo sh install-livecd.sh

4. After that (for a few seconds) hard drives will wake-up!
5. Now, you can start Installation procedure, and install Ubuntu onto wanted hard drive.
6. When installation procedure finished DO NOT RESTART PPC YET! You must copy updated initrd.img to /boot dir on hard drive where Ubuntu installed. So, type:
   
   Code:

   ls /media

   Look what is the name of HDD where you installed Ubuntu

   Code:

   cp /usr/src/cmd64x-0.1/initrd.img-`uname -r` /media/<enter name of HDD here>/boot

7. Now, you can restart PPC!
8. When boot menu appeared on screen, just press enter, and if you did procedure well, Ubuntu should be booted properly.
9. But this is not finish. We have to do some job, yet.

Stage 2 – after Installation (on HDD itself)

Steps:

1. When you booted from hard drive, once again unpack attached cmd64x-0.1.tar.gz archive and install cmd64x-dkms_0.1_all.deb package and install them.
   IMPORTANT!
   Do this PRIOR first update of the system.
2. Again, open terminal and type:
   
   Code:

   cd /usr/src/cmd64x-0.1
   sudo sh install.sh

3. Wait for procedure will be done and then update your PPC.
4. Do reboot as is suggested and see is it all right.
5. Enjoy Koala at your PPC G3.

I reported this issue as a bug here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/513131

cmd64x-0.1.tar.gz (For Karmic Koala)
cmd64x.ko (For Lucid Lynx)

The original article can be found here