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
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 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. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bill Hayden Hayden Technologies, Inc.
