[gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[Valmor de Almeida]

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Hello,

I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to boot
a relatively old machine with it.

Here is where it stops

>> Mounting the squashfs filesystem
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /newroot/mnt/livecd failed: Invalid argument
!! Failed to $1; failing back to the shell...

Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot process it
says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the minimal iso not Live
in the past?

Thanks for inputs.

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Valmor

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Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[Stroller]

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On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> ...
> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried  
> to boot a relatively old machine with it.
>
> Here is where it stops
> ...


Have you tried SystemRescueCD?

http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

> Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot  
> process it says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the  
> minimal iso not Live in the past?

I think this may depend upon your definition of a "LiveCD". To me it  
is an operating system which boots from CD & which requires no hard- 
drive.

Stroller.


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Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[Valmor de Almeida]

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>
> ...
>
> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to
> boot a relatively old machine with it.
>
> Here is where it stops
>
> ...
>
>
> Have you tried SystemRescueCD?
>
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
>

Thanks; never tried; always used the gentoo minimal

>
> Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot process it
> says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the minimal iso not Live
> in the past?
>
>
> I think this may depend upon your definition of a "LiveCD". To me it is an
> operating system which boots from CD & which requires no hard-drive.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
Right. I meant the Live version that comes with a X Window login manager,
etc.

Thanks,

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Valmor

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Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[Joshua Murphy]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to
>> boot a relatively old machine with it.
>>
>> Here is where it stops
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Have you tried SystemRescueCD?
>> http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
>
> Thanks; never tried; always used the gentoo minimal
>>
>> Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot process it
>> says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the minimal iso not Live
>> in the past?
>>
>> I think this may depend upon your definition of a "LiveCD". To me it is an
>> operating system which boots from CD & which requires no hard-drive.
>> Stroller.
>
>
> Right. I meant the Live version that comes with a X Window login manager,
> etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>

One note about sysresccd, while I do nearly all of my installs from it
(working from a likely out of date copy, so unsure how much this still
applies) anymore, I've run across a small issue between its use of zsh
and emerging some packages. Most recently, it bit me while getting one
of the dependencies to nfs-progs built so my new system would be able
to get to my portage tree share on its own after the reboot. This bug
(closed as RESOLVED - INVALID, since it's not actually a bug with
Gentoo in the eyes of the Devs):
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271942  details it further and
gives a couple options on fixing it, should you run into it at all.

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[Dan Wallis]

On 10/12/2009, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> One note about sysresccd, while I do nearly all of my installs from it
> (working from a likely out of date copy, so unsure how much this still
> applies) anymore, I've run across a small issue between its use of zsh
> and emerging some packages. Most recently, it bit me while getting one
> of the dependencies to nfs-progs built so my new system would be able
> to get to my portage tree share on its own after the reboot. This bug
> (closed as RESOLVED - INVALID, since it's not actually a bug with
> Gentoo in the eyes of the Devs):
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271942  details it further and
> gives a couple options on fixing it, should you run into it at all.

It's probably worth mentioning this on the "New eselesct module for
/bin/sh" bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214817

If there are things that break when /bin/sh is not bash, then it's
worth noting them, and probably fixing the root cause too. :)