fedora-triage-list Digest, Vol 7, Issue 1
Iordan Kolev Iordanov
iiordanovv at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 24 18:14:26 UTC 2006
Just to reply to my own post, since I fixed the problem. The problem
was that NFS was exporting the image read only and root_squash, so I
had to change that. However, the stage2.img is still not mountable,
and that is probably due to some new format that is being used.
Iordan Iordanov
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> 1. Is stage2.img corrupt on Fedora Core 5 (can't mount loopback)
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> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Iordan Kolev Iordanov <iiordanovv at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Is stage2.img corrupt on Fedora Core 5 (can't mount
> loopback)
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> Hi,
>
> I was trying to install FC5 using kickstart over the network, and I
> noticed that the install hangs when it tries to loopback mount
> stage2.img. I tried to mount it myself manually, and locally on the
> nfs server (which serves the distro), and I get the following:
>
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 40452
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 07:03.
>
> I also tried mounting stage2.img from the first disk of a separate
> download of FC5, and from the DVD of a yet another download of FC5,
> all
> to the same result. Just for kicks, I mounted stage2.img from FC1,
> and
> FC2 with no problem on two separate computers which failed to mount
> FC5's stage2.img.
>
> The command used was the usual:
>
> mount -o loop /path/to/stage2.img /path/to/mount/point
>
> Has the format of stage2.img changed somehow, while the network
> installer has not been modified to accommodate the change? Or is the
> file simply corrupt to begin with. If the file is corrupt, wouldn't
> that prevent any kind of install of FC5, even using CD's? Please help
> me, as this problem is obviously preventing me from doing network
> installs of FC5!
>
> Sincerely,
> Iordan Iordanov
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