Re: [gentoo-catalyst] squashfs-tools-3.0 and kernels <2.6.16

[Erick M]

I encountered the same issue some weeks ago and coudn't find out what was
the problem exactly.
So I used zisofs instead of squashfs and it worked fine. (At least I could
hand back the project I had at that time)

my 2 cent

On 5/10/06, Stuart Buckland <stuart@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is already widely know or not.  If it is feel free
> to tell me to shut up :)
>
> It appears that squashfs-tools-3.0 was marked stable some point over the
> past couple of days.  If the CD you are building is running a kernel <
> 2.6.16 don't upgrade squashfs-tools on your build host.
>
> I just ran into this where by I upgraded to squashfs-tools-3.0 but my
> livecd uses the hardened-sources which is currently stable at 2.6.14-r8.
> While the CD builds perfectly happily it fails to boot being unable to
> mount squashfs.
>
> Downgrading the build host back to squashfs-tools-2.2_p2 solved the
> issue and all is well again.
>
> Just mentioning it in case I'm not only one who didn't know about this
> in the hope it saves others time in troubleshooting.
>
> Stuart
>
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