[Server-devel] installing a school server

[Jerry Vonau]

Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:57:47AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> Yes, but you will need to tweak the kickstart file on the image (no
>> "do your own partitioning" option yet, sorry). By default, the XS
>> install CD will wipe the disk and setup an LVM (w/o RAID).
> 
> I modified the kickstart file following the procedure:
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery
> 
> I did this on an Ubuntu hardy machine with kernel 2.6.24-19. When I try 
> to boot the USB stick, it fails with:
> 
> ...
> Done copying live image to RAM.
> SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, trying to mount newer 3.1 filesystem
> SQUASHFS error: Please update your kernel
> mount: wrong fs type, bad open, bad superblock on /dev/loop120
> ...
> Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!
> 
> I hit the same error using the "Run from image" option. Suggestions?

What version of squashfs-tools are you using? If it 3.3.x
try adding -no-sparse -b 64k to the mksqushfs call

Jerry