Re: [sabayon] Problem booting from 3.3b livecd

["Corey Burger" <corey burger gmail com>]

Sorry to deeply disappoint you, but this is a list for Sabayon, the
GNOME admin tool[1], not Sabayon Linux [2].

[1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/
[2] http://www.sabayonlinux.org/

Cheers,

Corey

On 7/16/07, Amey Parulekar <kindled blade gmail com> wrote:
> Hey,
> If I try booting from the 3.3b minicd, then I get the following errors:
>
> >>No cdupdate.sh script found, skipping...
> >>Booting (initramfs)..[   32.070637] SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned
> unexpected result 0xfffffffd, srclength
> 65536, avail_in 18, avail_out 65536
> [   32.070652] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x833b
> [   32.070668] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 20c57ec, size 9532
> [   32.070684] SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpecter result
> 0xfffffffd, srclength 65536, avail_in 18, avail
> _out 65536
> [   32.070699] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x833b
> [   32.070715] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 20c57ec, size 9532
> [   32.070731] SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpecter result
> 0xfffffffd, srclength 65536, avail_in 18, avail
> _out 65536
> [   32.070746] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x833b
> [   32.070762] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 20c57ec, size 9532
> [   32.070777] SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpecter result
> 0xfffffffd, srclength 65536, avail_in 18, avail
> _out 65536
> [   32.076580] SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x833b
> [   32.079717] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 20c57ec, size 9532
> switch_root: Bad init '/sbin/init'
> [   32.089796 ] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> [   32.093882] _
>
> So I booted from the livecd of another distro, and manually copied the
> contents of the livecd.squashfs by mounting it using mount -o loop, to an
> ext3-formatted partition. Then, I added the following entries to menu.lst
> for grub:
>
> title Sabayon
> root (hd1,1)
> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.20-sabayon-r3 root=/dev/hdb2
> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.20-sabayon-r3
>
> However, if I try to boot Sabayon, then I get a
> "The root block /dev/hdb2 is unspecified or not detected" error
>
> Please advise....
>
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