Bug 279472

Summary:	SPARC install cd fails to boot
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Chris Reffett (RETIRED) <creffett>
Component:	InstallCD	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jpd, martin.mueller, sparc
Priority:	High
Version:	autobuild
Hardware:	Sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-28 13:54:39 UTC

When booting from the most recent (20090727) SPARC64 minimal install cd, the boot fails at "Mounting squashfs filesystem" with the error "mount:mounting /dev/loop0 on /newroot/mnt/livecd fauled: Invalid argument   !!Failed to $1, falling back to the shell..." Running dmesg | tail reveals the line "SQUASHFS: Mounting a different endian SQUASHFS filesystem on loop0" I tried the previous autobuild, and that one didn't work either.
Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Martin Müller - Sun Germany SE 2009-07-29 12:05:21 UTC

Same happened for me while booting a Logical Domain of the the install-sparc64-minimal-20090727.iso image, dmesg had no hint on what's going wrong.

Comment 2 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-30 12:15:19 UTC

I tried the install cd on another SPARC box (a quad-CPU UltraSPARC-II), with the same results. Note that the first computer I used it with was an UltraSPARC-IIIi.

Comment 3 Jan Dirnberger 2009-08-17 12:49:18 UTC

Same here, but with newer install-image (20090803). Hardware is SunFire V100 (UltraSPARC IIi, 1GB RAM, "normal" IDE HDD and CDROM).

Comment 4 Jan Dirnberger 2009-08-17 13:25:58 UTC

Reproducable, also occuring with install-sparc64-minimal-20090706.iso

Comment 5 James Yoder 2009-08-24 20:32:48 UTC

This bug was caused by an incompatibility between the kernel version and squashfs 4 filesystem. It has been fixed as of the 8/17/2009 autobuild.