[SOLVED] ERROR: unable to mount the livecd Dropping you to a limited shell.

[slax]

no, before i partitioned the new hdd, it booted to liveusb...

after draklive-install partitioned the hdd it told me to restart the installer.
it wouldn't go after first step (installer exited immediately) so i restarted computer.

At this point it failed with error "unable to mount livecd..."

btw, i used your script, it works perfect each time, this is most probably kernel not liking my hardware... :| but i'm not sure

will try several DEs on liveusb to see what happens....

[Was_Just19]

no, before i partitioned the new hdd, it booted to liveusb...

after draklive-install partitioned the hdd it told me to restart the installer.
it wouldn't go after first step (installer exited immediately) so i restarted computer.

At this point it failed with error "unable to mount livecd..."

btw, i used your script, it works perfect each time, this is most probably kernel not liking my hardware... :| but i'm not sure

will try several DEs on liveusb to see what happens....

The difficulty I have is that when it found a file called   livecd.sqfs   all was good, but it was 'supposed' to be looking for the file  'gnome.sqfs'.
That implies to me that it was not looking for  'gnome.sqfs' at all .......  because it located the  'livecd.sqfs'  file in the same location as the other file.

The only explanation I can suggest is that it was looking for  'livecd.sqfs'   and not  'gnome.sqfs' ......  and that is determined by the menu.lst entry.
I would suggest you should double check the menu.lst entry you are using.

I am failing to imagine how adding a HDD to the PC could affect it ......

regards.

[kjpetrie]

I agree with Just19. It sounds as if your menu.lst stanza had the default "livecd=livecd" entry instead of the custom "livecd=gnome" you needed.

[slax]

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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
 
title   Gnome
kernel (hd0,0)/Gnome_0/vmlinuz livecd=Gnome_0 fromusb root=UUID=a9219009-a5bb-4506-87a2-cbbb6f1dd775 acpi=on vga=791 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,0)/Gnome_0/initrd.gz
 
title  Gnome with Persistence
kernel (hd0,0)/Gnome_0/vmlinuz livecd=Gnome_0 fromusb root=UUID=a9219009-a5bb-4506-87a2-cbbb6f1dd775 acpi=on fstab=rw,noauto vga=791 changes_dev=UUID=a9219009-a5bb-4506-87a2-cbbb6f1dd775 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,0)/Gnome_0/initrd.gz

title   Gnome with Copy to RAM
kernel (hd0,0)/Gnome_0/vmlinuz livecd=Gnome_0 fromusb copy2ram root=UUID=a9219009-a5bb-4506-87a2-cbbb6f1dd775 acpi=on vga=791 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,0)/Gnome_0/initrd.gz

I don't know how partitioning affected this issue, but it has...
If you need any more info/test let me know

[Was_Just19]

Is that an original PCLOS ISO or is it a remaster of some sort?

Just trying to determine what may be possible .....

[slax]

It's a remaster of gnome zen

[Was_Just19]

It's a remaster of gnome zen

Did this ISO work correctly previous to the change in HDDs?

Does the same thing happen with other ISOs? ....  like KDE-Minime for instance?

It is strange .....

[slax]

read the previous post:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,71759.msg754568.html#msg754568

same liveusb worked on the same hardware, before it was partitioned by installer (draklive-install) :|

really don't know what happened, but the good news is, that this is an isolated effect
In a long time before me, no one reported this issue...

didn't had the time to check with other DE's