allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> More accurately:
> 
> During Install, Expert Mode, everything freshly formatted except for "/home", 
> at the end, check for updates...
> 
> Mdk9beta3 evidently tries to mount something AT /mnt/root/aif-mount
> using a loopback device.  It evidently tries all available loopback devices.
> 
> When in fact there is no mount point, /mnt/root/aif-mount.

there is! During install "/" is mounted as "/mnt".

> 
> This is why I would suggest that the error below is not a loopback
> device problem but actually a mount point problem.
> 
> The invalid argument would be "/mnt/root/aif-mount".

nope, when the directory where to mount doesn't exist, one gets: 
  No such file or directory

one would get an "Invalid argument" if the loopack was not properly
losetup'ed

and losetup *did not* fail :-(

anyway, a solution is to check the mounting for errors.

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