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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:43 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] "Invalid loop location" with custom LiveC Reply with quote

I'm in the process of putting together a LiveCD for a project that I'm working on. I used the Gentoo Wiki article on building a LiveCD from scratch (as I have in the past) and got everything ready. I believe the only way that I have deviated from the HOWTO is by using ISOLINUX instead of GRUB.

Unfortunately, when I go to boot the CD (either through QEMU or with my laptop -- a Dell Inspiron 9300) I get this:

Code:
>> Activating mdev
>> Making tmpfs for /newroot
>> Attempting to mount media:- /dev/hdc
>> Media found on /dev/iseries/vcd*
>> Determining root device...
>> Determining looptype ...
!! Invalid loop location: /livecd.squashfs
!! Please export LOOP with a valid location, or reboot and pass a proper loop=...
!! kernel command line!


Then it drops into BusyBox's shell and blah blah blah. I read a fairly recent thread with the same issue and tried a few of the things that people suggested in that thread but it just doesn't seem to want to work right no matter what I do. A quick look at /dev in the minimal shell shows no sign of the "iseries" entry, which sort of makes sense considering I don't own an iSeries system. :P

The CD drive is being picked up on both systems (and appears in /dev) but in both cases, when I try to mount it I wind up getting this:

Code:
/newroot # mount -o ro /dev/hdc /newroot/mnt/cdrom/
mount: Mounting /dev/hdc on /newroot/mnt/cdrom/ failed: Invalid argument
/newroot #


Something that's even stranger is that it appears to be attempting to mount it with XFS, as this comes up without fail when run dmesg afterwards:

Code:
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed


Attempting to pass "-t iso9660" to mount causes the mount to fail with the "no such device" error.

It's clearly loading the kernel and initramfs just fine, so I'm a bit confused as to why the CD-ROM drive doesn't seem to want to mount at all.

If anyone has any ideas I'm more than willing to try them. :)

Thanks!


Last edited by Spectere on Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:38 pm; edited 1 time in total
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you maka a change to linuuxrc script?? because there is defined mounting of device where is livecd file. I had to do that as it should work on usb stick, but than it didnt work for CDs, because for CDs there must be only mounting -t iso9660,, maybe check if you have prperly compiled cdrom drivers and cdrom filesystem support.

Also dont remember to add the "livecd" file to the cd.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey'a, thanks for the reply. :D

I didn't touch the initrd at all, so the linuxrc is pristine. The IDE and CD-ROM drivers are compiled into the kernel, as is ISO9660 and UDF file system support. The livecd file is in the root directory of the CD -- that's part of my build script.

I'll probably keep working on it tonight. If I figure anything out I'll be sure and post it.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bump!

I'm one step closer to solving the problem. I compiled ISO9660 support in as a module and slapped that into the initramfs, then booted. Of course, it bombed again, but then I loaded the fancy new isofs.ko, "mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /newroot/mnt/cdrom", updated the LOOP environment variable to point to the mounted CD, and now I'm currently sitting at the command line in QEMU. :D

I'll play with it a bit more tomorrow (err...today...it's kinda late :P) to see if I can get it to do everything automatically (as it should). Maybe running genkernel again will do it, we'll see.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Triple post. :(

Problem solved, though it is a mite hackish.

I unpacked the initramfs, added the isofs module (since genkernel doesn't put that in automatically?) and created an entry for it in /etc/modules/fs. Now my ISO boots up fine in QEMU without any intervention! Whew.

Hopefully this'll help someone in the future.
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