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

Alejandro Mery <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.user
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
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