On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, J P wrote:
> Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: hmount: /dev/hda14:
> not a
> Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument) ybin: An error occured trying to access
>/dev/hda14 as
> HFS.
>
> When I get this error, it would be nice to be able to back up and start over from
>the "setup
> filesystems" section, but you are stuck in a perpetual loop you cannot get out of
>without aborting
> and rebooting.
>
> I've hit this error, no matter how I've been able to run the partitions. I've been
>successful in
> installing many other Linux PPCs, but not with this one. Any suggestions on a step
>by step
> procedure? I'm totally lost, and about ready to give up.
>
Known issue - now fixed hopefully for the next release. I introduced it
in trying to correct a looping issue on "Erase entire disk".
You can get out of it by:
switch to VT2
hformat /dev/hda14
The mirrors have this latest code but not on an ISO yet.
Sorry about that,
Stew Benedict
--
MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
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