SnapafunFrank wrote:
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ERROR: Unable to mount loop filesystem,
Dropping you to a limited shell.
Commands were:
losetup /dev/loop/0 initrd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs
mount -r -t squashfs /dev/loop/0 initrd/loopfs
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So, does anyone here have any practical suggestions ?
Frank,
As luck would have it, I just happen to know what the problem is. This
is a very common problem with LiveCD's. Your problem is related to one
of 4 things,....
1) Re-burn the CD at no higher than 8x speed - usually the main reason
for your exact problem,
2) The ISO was compromised during the download - second most common reason,
3) Use a different brand of blank media - the one you're using might be
inferior for this type of ISO,
4) Your CD/DVD burner drive is not compatible with this type of ISO.
Those are the only reasons why you might be having that problem, but I
suspect that it's probably the first or second one that is the culprit.
If you have a system running Linux that still works, install a package
called 'qemu' and use it to test the ISO before you burn it with the
command;
qemu -cdrom 'name of the file.iso' (don't include the quotes)
Qemu will allow you to boot the ISO file without having to burn it to a
CD first. If the ISO boots without the error you had earlier, ten your
problem is just the burn speed that you used, so set it down to 8X
instead of what you normally use.
If it doesn't boot and gives you that error when you test it with qemu,
then the ISO is corrupted and you need to download it again. It's not
the ISO that may have been corrupted,m but the distrib.sqfs file inside
the ISO that was damaged.
HTH's
DL
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