On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Bill Hayden wrote:
> Config: > PowerMacintosh AGP G4/450 384MB > Mandrake 8.2 PPC beta 1 (said beta 2 in the install though) > 8GB Western Digital HD (Apple branded, pull from a beige G3) set to master > on primary bus > Beta1 graphics were already gone ;^) > The first 95% of the install went flawlessly, but it died consistently at > the end (I tried three times). After all the packages had installed, during > the "install boot loader" phase, I got an error that would not let me > continue. I am a developer and yet I committed the cardinal tech support > sin - I did not write down the error. From memory it is: > > hmount: could not mount /dev/hda10 - not an HFS volume > You wouldn't happen to have your drive in some unorthodox ordered scheme, would you? The bootstrap partition is created automatically in the first Apple_Free space of 1MB or more, hence hda10 each time. > I couldn't continue past that point. In the three times that I tried to > install, I used three differently partition methods, thinking that it would > affect the outcome. It did not. I used custom partitioning the first time, > then recommended, then whole drive. Interestingly, no matter how I > partitioned the drive, IIRC it always gave that EXACT device number, > /dev/hda10. If I were an Open Firmware stud, I probably could have gotten > the machine to boot from the drive at that point, but alas I am not. > > I am using an 8GB Western Digital drive (Apple branded) pulled from a beige > G3, if that makes any difference. > Sounds like the hformat step before the ybin run is not happening for some reason. Ways out: 1) Switch to VT2 during the install, and run pdisk -l /dev/hda (just to verify hda10 is a 1MB bootstrap) hformat /dev/hda10 do this before getting to the bootloader setup 2) Boot the rescue image and do the same as above. mount your "/" on /mnt/disk chroot /mnt/disk verify the existance of /etc/yaboot.conf ybin -v nvsetenv boot-device "hd:10,\\:tbxi" (you may need to escape some "\\", run nvsetenv | grep boot-device to check) exit umount /mnt/disk reboot Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
