I've created two LiveCDs. The CDs were created from the livecd-ppc-1.4-nostages.iso.bz2 and livecd-g3-grp-1.4-cd1.iso images. I've booted from each LiveCD (held down "C" to boot from CD) getting to the prompt with the live and live-safe kernels. I've tried booting using both kernels on both LiveCDs and all 4 kernels have the same result. There are about 2 pages of booting information that scroll across the screen before it gets to the "Using /lib/modules/misc/cloop.o" line. All 4 kernel boots never pass this line despite leaving the machine running for half a day. I have an old blondi blue imac with a g3 233mhz pc and 32MB of RAM. It currently has mac os 9.1 on it which runs with no problem. I'm hoping to get the above problem resolved so I can turn it into a gentoo machine! :-) Thanks. Please contact me at accounts@katieandmike.com if you have any questions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from LiveCD by holding down "C" on your keyboard. 2. At the gentoo prompt, choose live or live-kernel. 3. The installation will get stuck on the "Using /lib/modules/misc/cloop.o" line. Actual Results: The kernel attempts to boot and initialization information scrolls across the screen until it gets to a line saying "Using /lib/modules/misc/cloop.o". The installation never gets past this line. Expected Results: Installation should have continued and the kernel should have booted/loaded successfully. Sorry, I can't remember the lines above the "Using /lib/modules/misc/cloop.o" line. Please email if you need that info.
There are new experimental LiveCDs at http://www.metadistribution.org/gentoo/ We would appreciate when you could test and if there is still this error, so that we can fix it for the final release.
I tried the experimental LiveCD "basic-g4-2004.iso" image without success. (The "readme" stated that g4 images work on g3 machines as well) Same error occurred. Stuck on Using /lib/modules/misc/cloop.o I took a look at boot messages above where it gets stuck and everything looks fine to me. I'm not sure what the cloop module does (local loopback perhaps) but the boot process doesn't seem to be able to load it. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.
I'm having the same problem on a dual-USB iBook (500 MHz, 384 MB RAM). I'd had OS 10.2.8 on it at one time, so I began with the bugfix-10.2.8.iso image, as suggested in the FAQ. Its boot, regardless of whether I chose to boot live or live-safe, stopped at 'Using /lib/modules/misc/cloop.o'. Searching for answers, I found this page, and tried the suggested basic-g4-2004.iso experimental image, to no avail: it also stops booting at that point.
Here are possible causes based on what I have seen: - the compressed fs was generated using a different version than the cloop driver. These are the cloop driver versions I have seen in use: 0.68 1.02 2.01) Double check that the create_compressed_fs command you use is the same version as the cloop driver you are building for the kernel. - the kernel does not have CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y 2.4.22-gentoo-r5's make old/menu/xconfig turns deflate into "m" So make sure that before building your kernel, the above dot-config lines are "y" -- jpa
the compressed loop used is the gcloop one that uses ucl, not the knoppix cloop that uses zlib.
This bug has been inactive for more than 90 days. Can this still be reproduced? Does this problem still occur when using a newer LiveCD, like 2004.2?
The 2004.2 livecds use squashfs. This should no longer be an issue there.
