Installing from USB disk fails: Can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow
Bug #569730 reported by
Roeland Schoukens
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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casper (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have downloaded the .iso image of Ubuntu netbook remix 10.4 RC (ubuntu-
When booting the stick, the boot menu appears, but after choosing to install or test, i get a busybox prompt. After the busybox splash screen an error is shown: "Can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow". I have tested this on 2 computers, a netbook and a desktop PC.
Attached are caspar.log and dmesg.txt, created as described on https:/
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One of the smoking guns here is:
------- ------- ------- -- /dev/loop1 rw,noatime
+ cowdevice=
+ get_fstype /dev/loop1
+ local FSTYPE
+ local FSSIZE
+ fstype
+ eval FSTYPE=unknown FSSIZE=0
+ FSTYPE=unknown FSSIZE=0
+ [ unknown != unknown ]
+ /sbin/blkid -s TYPE -o value /dev/loop1
+ cow_fstype=
+ cow_mountopt=
+ mount -t -o rw,noatime /dev/loop1 /cow
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu10) multi-call binary
Usage: mount [flags] DEVICE NODE [-o options, more-options]
Mount a filesystem. Filesystem autodetection requires /proc be mounted.
Options:
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so blkid has failed to get the type but it's still tried to pass that to mount -t
Dave