Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Well, the squashfs3.3 tarballs from the SF page and from the > squashfs-lzma site are identical, and the credits page in both mention > 'lzma patches', though no word of it appears in CHANGES or README. My > interpretation is that v3.3 incorporates the patches. Just to clear up any confusion, v3.3 from sourceforge doesn't incorporate the LZMA patches. The squashfs3.3 tarballs from sourceforge and squashfs-lzma.org are identical because the tarball on squashfs-lzma is taken unchanged from sourceforge, there's additional patches on squashfs-lzma.org which add LZMA support. Obviously the CHANGES and README files don't mention LZMA because v3.3 doesn't use it, the credits file (ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file) simply acknowledges the work that squashfs-lzma.org has done in providing third-party LZMA support for those that want it (I don't officially support LZMA compression in Squashfs because it is not yet officially supported in the vanilla Linux kernel). > > >> But the image still does not boot. Something else in the initrd must > >> be messing up. > > > > What is the message now? > > We no longer see any errors, but init cannot find root, so itdrops me > to an emergency shell. In there I find nothing interesting in /dev . > Not even loop devices. > Failing to find root may be because you're still not generating a Squashfs v3.2 compatible filesystem. The patch you mention elsewhere which adds '-no-sparse' to mksquashfs, also adds '-b 131072' which will still generate an incompatible filesystem, the block size must be 64K or less - the patch should be adding '-no-sparse -b 64k'. If you see the following error message after the initrd tries to mount root, you still have an incompatible filesystem. SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, trying to mount newer 3.1 filesystem SQUASHFS error: Please update your kernel The filesystem should be version '3.0', you can use file or unsquashfs -stat on the Squashfs filesystem to check the version. Phillip -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
