Re: Booting debian livecd iso from grub2 - panic Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

[lukshuntim@gmail.com]

On 12/01/2012 12:12 AM, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov wrote:
> fromiso=/dev/sda8/iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
> ?

Thanks for the help. :-)

> 
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:01 PM,  <lukshuntim@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ed to boot the debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso from a hard
>> disk partition using grub
> 

Unfortunately it doesn't work. Here's the relevant (I hope) excerpt of
live.log. It's 1.6 M and pastebin doesn't accept such large size files.

+ check_dev /sys/block/sda/sda8
+ sysdev=/sys/block/sda/sda8
+ devname=
+ skip_uuid_check=
+ [ -n /dev/sda8/iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso ]
+ dirname /dev/sda8/iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
+ ISO_DEVICE=/dev/sda8/iso
+ [ -b /dev/sda8/iso ]
+ i=15
+ [ -n /dev/sda8/iso ]
+ [ 15 -gt 0 ]
+ dirname /dev/sda8/iso
+ ISO_DEVICE=/dev/sda8
+ [ -b /dev/sda8 ]
+ break
+ [ /dev/sda8 = / ]
+ mkdir /isofrom
mkdir: can't create directory '/isofrom': File exists
+ mount -t auto /dev/sda8 /isofrom
mount: mounting /dev/sda8 on /isofrom failed: No such file or directory
+ sed s|/dev/sda8||
+ echo /dev/sda8/iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
+ ISO_NAME=/iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
+ setup_loop /isofrom//iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso loop
/sys/block/loop*
+ local fspath=/isofrom//iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
+ local module=loop
+ local pattern=/sys/block/loop*
+ local offset=
+ local encryption=
+ local readonly=
+ modprobe -q -b loop
+ udevadm settle
+ cat /sys/block/loop0/size
+ [ 0 -eq 0 ]
+ sys2dev /sys/block/loop0
+ sysdev=/block/loop0
+ /sbin/udevadm info -q name -p /block/loop0
+ echo /dev/loop0
+ dev=/dev/loop0
+ options=
+ [ -n  ]
+ [ 0 -lt  ]
sh: bad number
+ [ -z  ]
+ losetup /dev/loop0 /isofrom//iso/debian-live-6.0.5-i386-lxde-desktop.iso
losetup: /dev/loop0: No such file or directory
+ echo /dev/loop0
+ return 0
+ loopdevname=/dev/loop0
+ devname=/dev/loop0
+ [ -z /dev/loop0 ]
+ [ -d /dev/loop0 ]
+ [ -e /dev/loop0 ]
+ [ -n  ]
+ get_fstype /dev/loop0
+ local FS FSTYPE FSSIZE RET
+ FS=/dev/loop0
+ fstype /dev/loop0
+ eval
+ [  = unknown ]
+ [  = unknown ]
+ RET=0
+ [ -z  ]
+ FSTYPE=unknown
+ echo unknown
+ return 0
+ fstype=unknown
+ is_supported_fs unknown
+ fstype=unknown
+ [ -z unknown ]
+ grep -q unknown /proc/filesystems
+ modprobe unknown
+ grep -q unknown /proc/filesystems
+ uname -r
+ kmodule=/root/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/unknown/unknown.ko
+ [ -e /root/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/unknown/unknown.ko ]
+ return 1
+ [ -n  ]
+ return 1
+ return 1
+ livefs_root=
+ [ -n  ]
+ sleep 1
+ i=60
+ [ 60 -lt 60 ]
+ [ -z  ]
+ panic Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Regards,
ST
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