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

tjolson at verizon.net tjolson at verizon.net
Fri Mar 19 18:17:52 CET 2004


> 
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:50:57 -0500, tjolson at verizon.net 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





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