Dan LaBine wrote:
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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Thanks DL ~ Your persistence paid off. Today I again downloaded
pclos-7676 and burned it at 4x this time. It worked in that it booted
the notepad but there are some issues which I shall take to the
pclinuxonline forum.
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Regards
SnapafunFrank
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