Bug 482818 - Mksquashfs and Kernel
Summary: Mksquashfs and Kernel
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: livecd-tools
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 473162 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-28 12:46 UTC by Qian Cai
Modified: 2009-01-28 15:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-28 15:12:12 UTC
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Description Qian Cai 2009-01-28 12:46:43 UTC
Description of problem:
If I used F10 to create a rawhide livecd. The livecd would not be able to boot,

SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems
are unsupported.

This was because the host was using squashfs-tools-3.4-1, while the livecd had 2.6.29 kernel with squashfs 4.0, which break the back compatibility.

It was also a boot failure when using 4.0 version of squshfs-tools to create a 2.6.27 kernel based F10 livecd.

SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, newer Squashfs 4.0 filesystems
are unsupported.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
squashfs-tools-3.4-1.x86_64
livecd-tools-020-1.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. livecd-creator --config=/usr/share/doc/livecd-tools-020/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks
  
Actual results:
Livecd failed to boot in initramfs.

Expected results:
Livecd boot.

Comment 1 Qian Cai 2009-01-28 14:48:27 UTC
*** Bug 473162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2009-01-28 15:12:12 UTC
Yep, squashfs broke compatibility.  There's not anything we can do about this in livecd-tools.

Comment 3 Qian Cai 2009-01-28 15:54:48 UTC
Well, how about to add a check for kernel version installed in livecd while running mksquashfs to reject incompatible attempts?


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