Subject: bug#892: live-isos made with linux-libre i386 kernel fail to boot

From: fsmithred <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 16:12:38 -0400

Package: mount
Version: 2.41-5devuan1

Excalibur live isos made with linux-libre i386 kernels (several 6.12 and 
one 6.14) fail to boot and drop to initramfs prompt. Error messages say 
that filesystem.squashfs can't be mounted.

Downgrading mount, fdisk, libfdisk1 and uuid-runtime to version 
2.38.1-5+deb12u3devuan1 corrects the problem.

Screenshot of the error message in /boot.log is here:
https://get.refracta.org/files/misc/mount_squashfs_error_2025-05-25_18-00-38.png

short version:
"mount filesystem.squashfs: fsconfig() failed: unable to read 
squashfs_super_block"

fsmithred

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From: Ralph Ronnquist <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:54:06 +1000

It looks like the loop module is missing; may need to be explicitly
included in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and/or explicitly loaded
(with modprobe) in the early init scripting.

Ralph

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From: "Devuan bug Tracking System" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 19:14:02 +0000

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#892: live-isos made with linux-libre i386 kernel fail to boot

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Subject: bug#892: live-isos made with linux-libre i386 kernel fail to boot
From: fsmithred <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:12:04 -0400

close

New libre kernel (6.15.0) with latest mount (2.41-5devuan1:i386) works 
correctly. Whatever was the cause of the problem seems to be fixed. I'm 
closing this bug report, and if the problem returns, I'll re-open it.

fsmithred

Subject: live-isos made with linux-libre i386 kernel fail to boot
From: fsmithred <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 16:12:38 -0400

Package: mount
Version: 2.41-5devuan1

short version:

fsmithred