On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ben Reser wrote:
> Okay I got my laptop back from Apple on Friday. So I tried to install > 8.2 again. Here's what I found out. > > I tried to do the following. Install using the 8.2b1 cd and choosing a > ftp source (my local mirror). I got booted up and choose my airport > (btw stew that support is awesome, saves me from dragging out a network > cable). Stage2 loads fine. I setup my partition names and hit ok and > it asks for format. Formats fine (I've verified this by mounting the > paritions via 8.0 by hand). However when it tries to mount the > partition it says "An error occurred mount failed: No such device." > > I've tried various different file systems (ext2, ext3, reiserfs). I > changed my randisk_size to 32000 and 60000 (it actually wouldn't boot > stage2 with 32000). I tried not formating the partition. I tried > deleting some of them and redoing my partition table. No matter what I > always get this. At this point in time I'm unable to get to a terminal > to see exactly more details on this error. > > So I try just to boot and go off the 8.2b1 cd. It goes right past this > and I get a package selection. So it's something that's been done in > the installer since the beta 1 cd was made. > > Stew, whatever you need me to do to help you here let me know. > Ben, Although not the goal you're trying to reach, can you try CD install? I'm not sure anymore of the state of the stage2 image from the mirrors. I know it doesn't reflect any recent changes I've done, although they haven't really been that extensive. I know we talked on IRC about the possibility that not enough device nodes are being created, but I did some testing here and it seemed that drakx creates the devices on the fly as needed, and in my tests I had over 20 partitions on a drive without issue. From the error message it sounds like that's what happening. Thanks, 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
