Error: Unable to mount loop filesystem (Solved)

[Hallvor]

I am then dropped to a limited shell, and the livecd will not boot at all.

I have never seen this error before. After testing with two different kernels, the problem is still there. Even safe boot fails.

It is not a bad burn, because I have checked the md5sum, and it matches.

Sorry about this post being a mess.

All help is appreciated.


Hallvor

 

[AS]

At boot screen, press F6 (Options), select "default", at the end of the parameters line add:

noquiet  splash=verbose  debug

Did you tried the LiveCD on a different system ?
Exactly which ISO image are you using ?
How much RAM is available on your system ?
Is it a your own remaster or an official PCLinuxOS ?

AS

[Hallvor]

Here is a screenshot from Virtualbox:



I have only tried it on this computer, both in Virtualbox and having burnt it as a physical media. I have not tested it on a different system.

I am trying to make a customized remaster for my son's computer, based on the LXDE mini iso. The "master" installed and still boots just fine. It is just the remasters that don't work.

It is 2500 megabytes of RAM on this system, but I have only given it 256 megabytes of RAM in Virtualbox. (It did not boot from a CD on this computer, either.)


Thanks.

[AS]

The fact that don't boot in virtualbox exclude hardware compatibility problems, adding that it doesn't boot on your system too it is a clear hint that something is wrong on the ISO itself.

Which kernel is installed on your remastered system, and which compression options did you used to produce your remaster ?
Even better, can you post the complete mylivecd command line ?

[Hallvor]

I now have the 2.6.37-4 kernel, but I did also try the 2.6.38-8.bfs kernel without luck. Same error.

The mylivecd commandline is:

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mylivecd --nosplash --lzma mylivecd.iso

[AS]

I now have the 2.6.37-4 kernel, but I did also try the 2.6.38-8.bfs kernel without luck. Same error.

The mylivecd commandline is:

mylivecd --nosplash --lzma mylivecd.iso

From mylivecd usage output:

  --lzma                          Use with kernels older than 2.6.37
   --gzip                          Use gzip compression for the image
   --xz                            Use xz compression for the image

The compression option is the source of your problem, as --lzma has been deprecated for kernel earlier than 2.6.34.7.
Please use either --gzip (faster) --xz (slower but with better compression), or default which really is "xz further compressed".

AS

[Hallvor]

Oh dear... I will try again and see if it works. Thanks again for your help.

[AS]

Oh dear... I will try again and see if it works. Thanks again for your help.

Should work! 

Please consider using some more RAM while testing in virtualbox, as I believe the minimum requirement for LXDE is 384 MB ...

[Hallvor]

Please consider using some more RAM while testing in virtualbox, as I believe the minimum requirement for LXDE is 384 MB ...

Will do.  

Edit: Works perfectly now.