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Gaspard

I found my problem (had misconfigured my hd partitions...)

I was able to install everything, saved my password, but then, I can't
boot =(

I tried off the CD typing linuxppc at the promp, and I get a VFS cannot
mount fs error (or something like that) and then a kernel panic.

Booting from BootX is even worst, it gets to the point with it checks
my HD partitions, and then timesout...

Anyone has an idea what could be wrong?

I did get the same error.  Here's what the problem was.  I had created a
few partitions: / 800MB, /home 120MB, swap 64MB and an HFS partition of
30MB (sizes are approximate, but that's irrelevant).  When in the
xinstaller I clicked the select partitions button and told it what
partition is to be mounted where (eg /dev/sda4 as /), it somehow
confused the 30MB HFS partiton with the one I made for / and since there
were only 30 MB available, pretty much all RPMS failed to install.

The installer works this way.  You should partition your hard drive and
mount your / under /mnt/install, that's where the installer installs the
rpms.  So what I did was, repartitioned the hard drive again (because I
wasn't sure if the partition table wasn't screwed up during the failed
installation, rebooted into the installer again, launched a xterm,
mounted /dev/sda4 (change this accordingly) under /mnt/install and
started the installation.  This time around, everything worked fine.

Hope that helps.
Chepati.

Quote:> Hi,

> I did get the same error.  Here's what the problem was.  I had created a
> few partitions: / 800MB, /home 120MB, swap 64MB and an HFS partition of
> 30MB (sizes are approximate, but that's irrelevant).  When in the
> xinstaller I clicked the select partitions button and told it what
> partition is to be mounted where (eg /dev/sda4 as /), it somehow
> confused the 30MB HFS partiton with the one I made for / and since there
> were only 30 MB available, pretty much all RPMS failed to install.

> The installer works this way.  You should partition your hard drive and
> mount your / under /mnt/install, that's where the installer installs the
> rpms.  So what I did was, repartitioned the hard drive again (because I
> wasn't sure if the partition table wasn't screwed up during the failed
> installation, rebooted into the installer again, launched a xterm,
> mounted /dev/sda4 (change this accordingly) under /mnt/install and
> started the installation.  This time around, everything worked fine.

> Hope that helps.
> Chepati.

James Field

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