ZoneMinder LiveCD v1.21.3 problems

[campbell]

I am hoping someone can advise on the problem I'm having running the livecd....

When booting up from cd, everything works fine till

Mounting loop image on /initrd/loopfs:

After a while and "Failing", this message comes up and i'm thrown into a command shell

unable to mount loop filesystems
dropping you to a limited shell
commands were:
losetup/dev/loop

PC is AMD K7 550
512MB ram
matrox video

Suse 9.3 professional installed on pc, but will move over to the version on the cd...if I can get it working.

I am very new to linux (only came over to try/use zoneminder) and would appreciate if anyone can help.

thanks in advance

Campbell

[jameswilson]

ermm.. havent seen this on any of my builds but the oldest i have tried to run it on was a duron 750 with 360 odd MB. similar spec though.
I assume this pc was working ok?
Try adding noacpi to the boot line when starting live cd

James

[campbell]

Thanks for your help james, I tried what you said, but unfortunately it didn't make any difference. I did notice that I never put the full text on the previous message following the failure...


unable to mount loop filesystems
dropping you to a limited shell
commands were:
losetup/dev/loop/0 init rd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs
mount -r -t squashfs /dev/loop/0 initrd/loopfs
loading /initrd/bin/ash

.......

Campbell

[jameswilson]

are you sure the cd is ok?
There is a way to check the download completed succesfully i yhink its an md5 checksum
If you search you should find it. It sounds like its failing to mount the cd fully but im not that expert on linux yet so thats all i can suggest sorry.

James

[campbell]

I did a checksum when burning....and all matched.....I'll try to use it on another pc....which hasn't got the cctv card in, just to see if it runs

many thanks for your help.

Campbell

[jameswilson]

ok let me know how it goes in another pc. I should just boot.

James

[mrd]

I'm seeing this same problem with a 1.22.2.1 cd that I've used many times on other systems.

This new system:
IBM P4 3ghz
512 ram
Intel 865G chipset graphics memory controller hub (MCH)
BlueCherry PV-149 capture card

I've tried an older version of the Livecd that boots up but the graphic corrupt right after the desktop starts to load. I've tried entering bootcodes to change the resolution that seem to change it but the graphics still fall apart and the system is unusable.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

[mrd]

I've narrowed this down a bit.

I am able to boot the 1.21.3 version of the LiveCD and by using thar Ctrl Alt + keys, I can get a working desktop to come up. Now I'm trying to figure out why the most recent version is not working.

I see an "ERROR: Unable to mount Livecd" message and then a prompt.

Any help would be great!

Thanks!

[mrd]

P.S. I've tried several CD's burnt from different .iso files downloaded at different times. Both CD's work on my other older system. I've also used different CD media to burn it to.

[jameswilson]

does the non live installer do this too?

[mrd]

If by "non-live installer" you mean the Zmdv_2006 CD, then I'm not sure because I can't seem to get it to download. I'm not familiar much with torrents and even though I tried bittorrent, I can't seem to get the file to download.

Thanks,

[mrd]

I was able to get the BlueCherry Live CD installed and working. It is a different distribution than the Mandrake based CD though.