[gobolinux-users] Cannot boot 013 because of squashfs problems.

[Joey Korkames]

I described the solution already on the known issues page - that very 
command line on there will not even boot the initrd on the iso 
successfully for *any* arch. On top of that, after that being corrected, 
it still will not fix issues with my AMD64 test case - it might have 
fixed a person trying with Hyperthreading P4 earlier in the thread 
although he didn't really specify or detail whether list-offered 
suggestions A or B worked, just that "it" did the trick.

That page doesn't look to be wiki-fied - if the maintainer could fix it 
(is that gobo@ ?), that would be super.

Thanks for letting me know about the squashfs/kernel update, Magnus.

Is there a precedence for updating just the initrd for a stable release? 
Or making a separate SMP iso? Or just altering the isolinux.cfg on the 
current iso? I think this is a major bug that shouldn't wait for 014. It 
totally cripples the liveCD for a major arch. Should I be reporting this 
to bugs.gobolinux.org?

Joey

magnus joh wrote:
> There is no bug repored in any form of bugzilla or similar, from my 
> part, at least.
> If you look on the download page, there is a link to a known issues 
> page. You will find that the error is described there. Upgrading 
> squashfs solves this problem. Thus, if the next gobolinux comes with 
> the new kernel package, then, yes, it will be fixed in the next release.
>  
> /Magnus Johnsson
>


>     Purported solution:
>     http://gobolinux.org/index.php?page=known_issues_013
>
>     >
>     >       SMP problems with SquashFS
>     >
>     > /isolinux/kernel initrd init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=4096
>     root=/dev/ram0
>     > video=vesafb:off Boot=LiveCD ide=nodma
>
>     1. the initd syntax is wrong
>
> Correction:
/isolinux/kernel initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=4096 
root=/dev/ram0 video=vesafb:off Boot=LiveCD ide=nodma
>
>
>     On further testing that boot sequence with my dual-core AM2 AMD64
>     rig....
>
>     Kernel Oops errors on things from udev, to modprobe, etc...always
>     after
>     booting the initrd
>
>     then I tried:
>
>     /isolinux/kernel initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=4096
>     root=/dev/ram0 video=vesafb:off noapic nosmp Boot=LiveCD
>
>     A little better, but not enough - still oops'ing.
>
>     Then I tried:
>
>     /isolinux/kernel initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=4096
>     root=/dev/ram0 video=vesafb:off noapic nolapic nosmp apic=off
>     Boot=LiveCD
>
>     Huzzah. i got a good zsh prompt.
>
>     I have two more AM2's back at the office (all 3 mobos are ASUS, but
>     these two have NForce chipsets) that I'll test the 013 LiveCD with
>     as well.
>
>     This whole thing was chalked up to a SquashFS bug - is there a proper
>     reference to this bug as reported on their end so they can get it
>     fixed (or so Gobo can
>     at least upgrade out of/around it on its next release...)?
>
>
>     Thanks
>     joey
>
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