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Bug 40855 - Invalid Loop Location: /zisofs - Gentoo X86 LiveCD 05-Feb
Summary: Invalid Loop Location: /zisofs - Gentoo X86 LiveCD 05-Feb
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: Low major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers
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Reported: 2004-02-08 09:29 UTC by Jason Jackson
Modified: 2004-03-29 12:02 UTC (History)
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Description Jason Jackson 2004-02-08 09:29:24 UTC
Scanning for ehci-hcd.. cat:/modules.cache: No such file or directory

<Hardware dection with module loading>

STEP3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options Started device management daemon v1.3.25 /newroot/dev

<mounts cdrom>

STEP4: Determining root device
STEP5: Finishing up
STEP5a: filling tmpfs filesystem
Invalid loop location: /zisofs
please export LOOP with a valid location, or reboot and pass proper loop=
kernel command line

< Starts Busybox >
/bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off

/newroot/# 

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Well there's the guts
This seems like such an obvious straight forward problem that it suprises me it exists; i would expect something like that to appear on every single computer out there.

Eitherway; here are some hardware specs:
Intel P4 Processor
ASUS motherboard with Intel Chipset
512 ddr ram
Dvd-Rom Drive
Comment 1 Brad House 2004-02-08 10:18:50 UTC
my guess is that you have 2 cdrom/dvd drives, and you have a CD
in the other drive as well.  It has no way to detect where the
master CD is at this moment.  So if you have 2 drives that take
CDs, make sure the other drive does not have a disc in it...
like I said, that's my guess, as that's the only thing that should
cause that issue.

-Brad
Comment 2 Jason Jackson 2004-02-10 12:43:08 UTC
Yes that fixed it.

So that will be fixed before release hopefully
Comment 3 icer 2004-03-02 12:14:40 UTC
I got the exactly same problem. I have only one cd-rom drive. My two harddrives are attached to the hpt370/372 raid controller.

I tried noevms(does not show on the boot options btw), doataraid, noapm, noapic etc boot options. Sometimes I get kernel panic instead, depending the options used, but cant get further.

Some hw specs: athlon xp abit kr7a-raid
512 ddr ram
cd-rom drive
2x maxtor 60gb

Icer
Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-15 11:42:41 UTC
livecd bugs, not release bugs
Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-24 18:31:14 UTC
i have tried to dup the problem and cannot reproduce
Comment 6 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-29 12:02:07 UTC
I've added the instructions to remove all CDs from the CD drive(s) before booting the LiveCD (of course, don't remove the LiveCD :p) to the installation instructions.