Bug 5518 - Mageia 2 Beta 3 LiveCD fails to boot
Summary: Mageia 2 Beta 3 LiveCD fails to boot
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Release (media or process) (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Backlund
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2012-04-20 19:56 CEST by ybsar
Modified: 2012-05-27 23:09 CEST (History)
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Description ybsar 2012-04-20 19:56:59 CEST 
Description of problem:

Using LiveCD (checked and burned twice), after GRUB loaded "Boot Mageia 2 (Cauldron)", the boot process hangs up with the following messages:

mount: special device /dev/sr does not exist
losetup: failed to setup loop device: No such file or directory
mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock
dracut Warning: /sysroot has no proper rootfs layout, ignoring and removing offending mount hook
dracut Warning: Can't mount root filesystem

Dropping to debug shell.
sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso

How reproducible:

Every boot.

Hardware:

The VGA controller is RV535 (ATI Radeon X1650 Series). I unsuccessfully tried kernel options "rdloaddriver=radeon" and "radeon.modeset=0". Thus, I'm not sure it is related.
Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2012-04-20 19:59:35 CEST 
Do you have 2 cd/dvd stations ?

If so, does it work if you use the other station ?

CC: (none) => tmb

Comment 2 ybsar 2012-04-20 20:27:00 CEST 
Good point.

I have 2 CD/DVD stations, but the other one can't read a CD-RW.

Note that I had no trouble installing Mageia 1 on it.

It works on another machine with only one CD/DVD station.
Comment 3 Thomas Backlund 2012-04-20 20:40:10 CEST 
Yeah, you got bitten by a fix I did for #3334 where booting from usb sticks failed, but I forgot to account for several cds/dvds.. 

I will fix it for RC.

So for now you need to either burn it to a ordinary cd-r, or dd the image to a usb stick.

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 4 diego w 2012-04-20 23:34:46 CEST 
same here with two different laptops
one with only one internal dvd-rw (sandy bridge b960), other one with only an external usb dvd-rw (SU4100)

i used the europe1 kde4 amd64 version

i also tried to mount the squashfs from within my installed cauldron:

[root@localhost diego]# mount -o,loop /media/Mageia-2-KDE4-LiveCD/loopbacks/distrib-lzma.sqfs /mnt/
mount: /dev/loop0: Konnte den Superblock nicht lesen

CC: (none) => smiling.diego

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:03:04 CEST 
Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Dave Hodgins 2012-05-27 23:09:11 CEST 
This was fixed in the rc release, if I remember correctly, so closing as
fixed.  Feel free to reopen, if I'm mistaken, and some people are still
having problems with the live cd boot.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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