Ok, I figured it out. It is indeed a 'bug' but it is due to a configuration that is most likely unique to me in the entire world :).
The issue was that another partition on the original drive contained files from another Squeeze based live CD (the Debian Eee project's 1.0b3 release), not all, but most of them. When booting, live-initramfs (or whichever process was involved) was mis-identifying this partition as the one with the necessary files and hence trying to mount the filesystem.squashfs from that partition - which must, of course, not be a 4.0 squashfs filesystem (I have not bothered to check). Only figured this out when I thought to check what was mounted from the live-initramfs prompt. The error when booting the stick on which the image was directly written occurred because the original pen drive was also plugged in at the time, so again the partition was mis-identified. Deleting the old files fixed the problem. Both the direct image pen drive and my partition install work now (due to changes I made while trying to figure out the problem, the latter just boots from a standard Grub stanza in the main GRUB, and is now on ext2; I am not bothering to test it with the original syslinux configuration, since I assume that would work too). Thanks a lot for all your help, Daniel, and apologies if this has been a waste of time. On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Baumann <dan...@debian.org> wrote: > On 04/17/2010 03:57 PM, Shankar Gopalakrishnan wrote: >> >> But, as said, the md5sums check out. Is it possibly anything to do >> with the machine I tried it on? > > you can find out by using the same stick on a different machine. > > -- > Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist > Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net > Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
