Unable to boot Xenialpup64 CE 7.5 from USB(Solved)
Posted: Fri 08 May 2020, 05:50
I'm trying out different Puppies on a Lenovo G585 laptop (1300MHz 2 core., 8 GB RAM) originally dual booting Win8 and Fatdog64-620 through refind, now with the addition of Bionicpup64 8.0 frugally installed.
This, being an UEFI machine, only allows USB boot by going into the "BIOS"
(the UEFI?) and changing the boot to "Legacy Support" and disabling "Secure Boot". I have a 16 GB USB flash drive freshly formatted to fat32 with GParted to which I installed bionicpup64-8, bionicpup32-8, xenialpup64-7.5, and xenial-7.0.6(32bit) through the use of isobooter.
Of the four pups, only xenialpup64-7.5 fails to boot, the dialogue going like so:
I can successfully boot this xenialpup64 on my other laptop (hp nx6325, 1600 MHz 2 core, 4 GB) using the same USB so the install is probably okay.
Any ideas on dealing with this "mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /pup_ro2 failed: Invalid argument failed" problem?
(Some might be saying "sda8! WTF?". I assure you this machine in its original Win8 configuration came with 8 partitions, to which I added sda9. I'm paranoid that with UEFI, wiping the disk could make it totally unbootable so they remain. The "refind" is a remnant of the Fatdog install. Again, changing to grub4dos seemed risky)
This, being an UEFI machine, only allows USB boot by going into the "BIOS"
(the UEFI?) and changing the boot to "Legacy Support" and disabling "Secure Boot". I have a 16 GB USB flash drive freshly formatted to fat32 with GParted to which I installed bionicpup64-8, bionicpup32-8, xenialpup64-7.5, and xenial-7.0.6(32bit) through the use of isobooter.
Of the four pups, only xenialpup64-7.5 fails to boot, the dialogue going like so:
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Booting xenialpup64-7.5-efi
Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done!
Booting the kernel
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*** xenialpup64 7.5 Linux 4.9.58 [x86_64] ***
Loading the 'puppy_xenialpup64_7.5.sfs' main file... copying to ram
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /pup_ro2 failed: Invalid argument failed
Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log...
4: ONE_PART=sda7
4: ONE_PART=sda8
5: ONE_PART=sda8 PSUBDIR= P_BP_FN= P_DEF_FN=puppy_xenialpup64_7.5.sfs
6: ONE_PART=SDA8 ONE_TRY_FN=/puppy_xenial64_7.5.sfs PDRV=sda8,vfat,/puppy_xenialpup64_7.5.sfs
Dumping last lines of kernel log...
psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 3 (with firmware version 0x450f02)
psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x078, 0x17, 0x0b.
psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 04, 3d, 85
input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input9
Pausing for 60 seconds...
Loading puppy main sfs file. failed
Dumping last lines of /tmp/bootinit.log...
4: ONE_PART=sda7
4: ONE_PART=sda8
5: ONE_PART=sda8 PSUBDIR= P_BP_FN= P_DEF_FN=puppy_xenialpup64_7.5.sfs
6: ONE_PART=SDA8 ONE_TRY_FN=/puppy_xenial64_7.5.sfs PDRV=sda8,vfat,/puppy_xenialpup64_7.5.sfs
Dumping last lines of kernel log...
psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 3 (with firmware version 0x450f02)
psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x078, 0x17, 0x0b.
psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 04, 3d, 85
input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input9
*** sda8 /puppy_xenial64_7.5.sfs mount of sfs failed.
*** Error is too critical, dropping out to console...
*** To save debug info to a partition, type 'debugsave'
Any ideas on dealing with this "mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /pup_ro2 failed: Invalid argument failed" problem?
(Some might be saying "sda8! WTF?". I assure you this machine in its original Win8 configuration came with 8 partitions, to which I added sda9. I'm paranoid that with UEFI, wiping the disk could make it totally unbootable so they remain. The "refind" is a remnant of the Fatdog install. Again, changing to grub4dos seemed risky)