Re: [rock-user] Install in stage 2 fails -- /mnt_source does not mount

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:50:57 -0500, [email protected] said:

> Hello, This is my first time installing a 2.0 Rock distribution and
> I'm using the drock iso's. I burned the iso images and when I go
> through the install process, I start to load the Stage 2 image file,
> but get the following messages:

> <27> "date" "time" insmod: insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.25_rock/kernel/fs/minix/minix.o
> <27> "date" "time" insmod: insmod: minix failed

These are just warnings - I see them too, and ignore them. Minix is a
*very* old file system standard.

>           can't mount /mnt_source: Invalid argument

Were you just accepting the defaults to the prompts, or entering your
own data. There must be another reason that the mount is failing.

Which version of the Rock ISO's are you using? Where did you get them
from? There were some problems a while ago but I believed them to have
been fixed.

-- 
Alan J. Wylie                                          http://www.wylie.me.uk/
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