Bugzilla Bug 272522

Booting from the newest LiveCD (install-x86-minimal-20090602.iso) fails
consistently on several computers that ran Gentoo LiveCDs just fine before. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download current Gentoo Minimal Install CD from
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
2. burn CD
3. boot

Actual Results:  
while booting:
>> Media found on /dev/hdc
>> Determining root device...
>> Determining looptype ...
>> Mounting squashfs filesystem
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /newroot/mnt/livecd failed: Invalid argument
!! Failed to $1; failing back to shell...


BusyBox v1.7.4 (2009-06-02 18:20:53 UTC) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of build-in commands.

/bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off
#

Expected Results:  
well...boot correctly, of course :-)

The error occurred when trying to set up a new server. At first I suspected a
bad media, so I burnt another one from a m5sum-verified iso file. After getting
the exact same error I tried booting from the iso image with VirtualBox and got
the same behavior. 
The old LiveCD (2008.0) boots fine on all computers that failed with the
current LiveCD.

It looks like the newer kernels do not support the older sqaushfs format. The
error message is:

SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems are
unsupported

On poseidon (the x86/amd64 build machine), we're using squashfs-tools-3.3,
which is the latest stable. Perhaps it's time to stabilize squashfs-tools-4.0.

I've heard from others that this bug would be fixed by using
squashfs-tools-4.0, so please stabilise it for arch :)

*** Bug 272869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

From others? You mean my comment on this bug right above your comment?

*** Bug 272984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I've opened bug #273131 requesting stabilization of squashfs-tools-4.0. In the
mean time, I'll force installation of the newer squashfs-tools on the x86/amd64
build machine.

Hi folks,

I am currently having this issue with install-amd64-minimal-20090604.iso too.
Anyone knows the latest working version of LiveCD or if the tonight builds will
fix this bug? I need the latest kernel available (ie 2.6.29-gentoo-r5) because
i am having I/O problems when formating an EXT3 partition with the LSI 1064E
SAS Controler using 2008.0 LiveCD.

Thanks in advance and keep the nice work you do!

Best regards,
Andres Montalban

@Andres: Last week's build (0526) worked fine for me, and you should be able to
do what you are wanting to, with it.

sys-fs/squashfs-tools-4.0 has been marked stable for:
alpha/amd64/ia64/sparc/x86 (bug #273131)

Now we just have to wait for tonight's autobuild - and all should be well! :)

(In reply to comment #9)
> sys-fs/squashfs-tools-4.0 has been marked stable for:
> alpha/amd64/ia64/sparc/x86 (bug #273131)
> 
> Now we just have to wait for tonight's autobuild - and all should be well! :)
> 

I have this problem with minimal iso for amd64 downloaded yesterday

# md5sum ~mmokrejs/tmp/gentoo/install-amd64-minimal-20090604.iso
04d6dc1d0a144f98f17764dac3994790 
/home/mmokrejs/tmp/gentoo/install-amd64-minimal-20090604.iso
#

Seems the file date are June 4 still:
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/current/

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
>
> I have this problem with minimal iso for amd64 downloaded yesterday
> 
> # md5sum ~mmokrejs/tmp/gentoo/install-amd64-minimal-20090604.iso
> 04d6dc1d0a144f98f17764dac3994790 
> /home/mmokrejs/tmp/gentoo/install-amd64-minimal-20090604.iso
> #

Fixed in install-amd64-minimal-20090611.iso.