SoaS Blueberry boot failure

[SeanDaly]

I just generated a Blueberry SD Card under WinXP with liveusbcreator v3.9. On boot of Dell Latitude 2100, boot halts with following message:

[drm:drm_mode_rmfb] *ERROR* tried to remove a fb that we didn't own

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

I've seen this at FUDCon sporadically on different machines, but I'm not exactly sure what's causing it. Maybe you could try following these instructions from Strawberry to see whether it helps:

# Press the <Escape> key at the blue screen, which appears for a second before the normal boot process starts. You'll be presented a short menu, at which you can directly press <Tab>, then just add the "nomodeset" argument in the appearing line, and then boot by pressing the <Enter> key.

[Thomas C Gilliard (satellit-)]

I also see this message on restart of sh generated 2 GB usb of
Blueberry-v2-.iso on EeePC 900

If I enter nomodeset at <TAB>

nomodeset command results in message:

 "mount: you must specify the file system type can't mount root filesystem"

Boot has failed, sleeping forever
=======================
USB worked on first run

(left out 3 /home commands in sh script)

Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> I've seen this at FUDCon sporadically on different machines, but I'm not
> exactly sure what's causing it. Maybe you could try following these
> instructions from Strawberry to see whether it helps:
>
> # Press the <Escape> key at the blue screen, which appears for a second
> before the normal boot process starts. You'll be presented a short menu,
> at which you can directly press <Tab>, then just add the "nomodeset"
> argument in the appearing line, and then boot by pressing the <Enter>
> key.
>
>

[Thomas C Gilliard (satellit-)]

This may be caused by having used a (--overlay-size-mb200) and downloading 2 large e-books to the journal.
Ran out of space in overlay as there was an error on shutting down.
 I re-made the USB with a larger overlay (1400mb)and this has not occurred again.
I think the overlay got corrupted.

[SeanDaly (sdaly-be)]

The same SD Card fails boot on Dell Inspiron Mini10:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'

Can't mount root filesystem

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

[SeanDaly (sdaly-be)]

I loaded a new blank 4 Gb USB stick with live-usbcreator v3.9, boot failed however additional CLI text is visible having scrolled into the white boot dots animation sequence:

/squashfs/LiveOS/ext3fs.img: No such file or directory
umount: /squashfs: not mounted
/sbin/dmsquash-live-root: 166: grep: not found
[: 166: /overlayfs/LiveOS/overlay-USB: unexpected operator
dracut Warning: Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'
mount: unknown filesystem type 'DM_snapshot_cow'

Can't mount root filesystem
[drm:drm_mode_rmfb] *ERROR* tried to remove a fb that we didn't own

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

[SeanDaly (sdaly-be)]

When booting 4 Gb USB stick on Eee PC 4G, same as immediately above, but right before boot animation, following message scrolls up then disappears. I photographed it:

render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
page table error
  PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
[drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
page table error
  PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100

[Thomas C Gilliard (satellit-)]

I get the same error message on all 4 types of my sticks after hitting
"Boot" but then they go on to work properly.
All booting in EeePC900 wirelessly.

1.} sh script on 2GB USB (1400 mb persistence)
2.) image-writer 2GB USB (no persistence)
3.) dd created 2 GB USB (no persistence)
4.) zyx=liveinstaller created 4GB USB (persistent)

I do not think this message is related to your problem

SeanDaly wrote:
> When booting 4 Gb USB stick on Eee PC 4G, same as immediately above, but
> right before boot animation, following message scrolls up then
> disappears. I photographed it:
>
> render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
> page table error
> PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
> [drm:i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
> render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
> page table error
> PGTBL_ER: 0x00000100
>
>

[SeanDaly (sdaly-be)]

This problem solved... the ISO image I had was missing over 100 Mb!

To be filed under: Never trust a GUI file manager message...

I am sure doing a checksum should have been my next step... but I confess I've only done this once some time ago

I think there were checksum instructions for Strawberry, is there anyone who could update that procedure for Blueberry?

thanks

Sean

[Sebastian Dziallas (sdziallas)]

They're on the Blueberry page now, too! :) Closing this one.