I emerged mindi and mondo. When attempting to run mindi, I say n to "Use your own kernel". N to Lilo instead of Syslinux. However, if I modify the following line 2036 2036: mount -t vfat -o loop $imagefile $mountpoint || LogIt "Cannot mount (PBDI)\n\n" to mount -t msdos -o loop $imagefile $mountpoint || LogIt "Cannot mount (PBDI)\n\n" this completes successfully. Did the vfat file system type change to msdos with the 2.6.8 kernel? Here is the output after the change... Your mountlist will look like this:-4 directories. DEVICE MOUNTPOINT FORMAT SIZE (MB) /dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs 101 /dev/hda2 swap swap 251 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs 2870 /dev/hda4 /data reiserfs 236142 Tarring and zipping the groups............... Done. Creating data disk #1...#2...#3...#4... Done. ... 1722KB boot disk was created OK..................... Done. Making 2880KB boot disk...........................mkfs.vfat 2.10 (22 Sep 2003) ... 2880KB boot disk was created OK Done. In the directory '/root/images/mindi' you will find the images:- mindi-bootroot.1722.img mindi-bootroot.2880.img mindi-data-1.img mindi-data-2.img mindi-data-3.img mindi-data-4.img Would you like to create boot+data floppy disks now (y/n) ?n Shall I make a bootable CD image? (y/n) y NB: Mindi's bootable CD always uses isolinux. For a bootable CD w/LILO, please use Mondo. Finished. Boot and data disk images were created. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Mindi 2. Say N to "Use your own kernel" 3. Say N to "Use Lilo instead of Syslinux" 4. Watch error Actual Results: Software errored with: Your mountlist will look like this:- DEVICE MOUNTPOINT FORMAT SIZE (MB) /dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs 101 /dev/hda2 swap swap 251 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs 2870 /dev/hda4 /data reiserfs 236142 Tarring and zipping the groups............... Done. Creating data disk #1...#2...#3...#4... Done. Making 1722KB boot disk...........................mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) Cannot mount (PBDI) umount: /tmp/mindilinux/4248/mountpoint.4248: not mounted Fatal error. Cannot unmount mountpoint (/tmp/mindilinux/4248/mountpoint.4248) Please e-mail a copy of /tmp/mindi.err.4248.tgz to the mailing list. See http://www.mondorescue.org for more information. WE CANNOT HELP unless you enclose that file. Expected Results: Completed creating boot+data disks Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dio directfb divx4linux dvb dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww lirc mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocardbus offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd truetype usb videos x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
Potentially related article here: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Aug/1606.html
This should be closed. I removed ide-scsi support from the kernel. The issue went away. If you look at the error from mount, it actually says that /dev/loop may be used by ide-scsi. mindi now properly creates filesystems. And, I can manually mount vfat partitions. Strange that the two are related.
(In reply to comment #2) > This should be closed. Closing a stale bug, since it works for the reporter.
