Re: [rock-user] Install in stage 2 fails -- /mnt_source does not mount
Alejandro Mery <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.distributions.rock.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] wrote: >>On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:50:57 -0500, [email protected] said: >> >> >> >>>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. >> >> > >Yes, I was just accepting the defaults. > >After the "/mnt_source: invalid argument" msg, I see these messages. > >Extracting 2nd stage filesystem to ram > >tar(child): cannot open archive /mnt_source/2.0.0-rc5-x86-i386-32-bootdisk- >expert/2nd_stage.tar.gz: No such file or directory > >tar(child) Error is not recoverable: exiting now. >tar(child) child returned status 2. >Can't mount /mnt_source : invalid argument >Can't find /mnt_root/linuxrc! > >Then, the first stage menu... > > >>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. >> >> > >I got the three, 2.0.0 iso binaries from: > nexus.tfh-berlin.de/~drock/stable/2.0.0/desktop >which was a link on rocklinux.org > all -rc<n> has this problem, it was a bug on dietlibc fixed for 2.0.0, try downloading one of those isos. Alejandro