On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:06:31AM +0000, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Mike Smith wrote: > > >Doing a kickstart install fails when trying to use the following : > > > >driverdisk --source=ftp://172.16.0.3/pub/drivers/dd.img > > > > It gives an error like this : > > > >mntloop loop6 on /tmp/drivers as /tmp/dd.img fs is 14 > >failed to mount loop : Invalid argument > > This message is coming from anaconda's loader2/method.c, and is printed > after trying to mount the image as iso9660, ext2, cramfs then vfat. If I > had to guess, the "Invalid argument" might be the image itself. Are you > sure it's being transferred properly? > If i remember correctly anaconda fails to try vfat for driver disks from > the network, it's a different code path for local and network and i guess > someone forgot to add vfat in the network branch. I can't remember if i > added a bugzilla entry about it either :( >A quick solution is to rebuild your driver disk as ext2 instead of vfat. Thanks for the responses. I'll certainly give it a try by making it an ext2 fs. Could it be possible that the loop module isn't included with the bootdisk.img? Just starting to dig into this a bit more. I'm fairly sure the image is being transferred correctly. I'm able to ftp it from one box and mount via mount -o loop dd.img /mnt/loop - Mike
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