Re: !! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance)
I'm sure it was just some simple kernel oops. I use vanilla kernel sources. The only patches I use are for reiser4 and squashfs.
Re: !! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance)
Newer kernels work better on new hardware.
*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***
Re: !! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance)
be4truth wrote:
One solution that sometimes works is to pass following kernel option at boot prompt:
pci=nomconf ide0=0x1018,0x1010
It worked for me (intel q6600 on gigabyte ga-p35, Pioneer DVR-112 ATA and sata hdd, legacy mode in bios)
Re: !! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance)
I had a same problem.
My PC is SONY vaio note PCG-C1VJ.
CD-ROM drive was not recognized on booting process.
So I added next parameter to kernel parameter of the grub menu.
ide2=0x180,0x386
I could boot from liveCD and the problem was solved completely.
55 2008-01-14 15:35:16 (edited by Rava 2008-01-30 11:06:00)
Re: !! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance)
I get the same error message on my Samsung Q40, but the CD-Drive is an external CD/DVD RW/R firewire IEE1??? drive.
I'm at the office right now and the Laptop is at home, I will try it with
# /dev/s[TAB][TAB]
and also with
# dmesg | grep -i cdrom
# dmesg | grep -i scsi
Some Linux-Live-CDs boot out of the box like the newest Knoppix 5.1.1, but I need to resize the single-Partition of the internal HD which is NTFS, and the knoppix gparted doesn't support that.
As far a I remember, the current qparted-live cd is able to do so or am I mistaken?
Update
# /dev/s[tab][tab] gives nothing.
# dmesg |grep -i scsi gives nothing.
# dmesg | grep -i cdrom gives one or two drivers that are loaded, but no cdrom drive name or similar.
Update 2
Now I copied the gparted.dat to an USB-Stick, which gparted seems to find as /dev/sda1 [now a /dev/sg0 appears, which hasn't before. Could be 'cause of the delay caused by the USB-stick.]
And I gave the kernel command with loop=/dev/sda1/gparted.dat but that won't work.
Now I try the idea with cdroot= and scandelay as mentioned above. Hope this will be the working solution, then.
Yours
Rava
Rava
56 2008-01-30 14:15:13 (edited by Rava 2008-03-13 06:50:29)
Re: !! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance)
It works now with just
scandelay=20 cdroot=/dev/sda1
when inserting the USB-stick with the gparted.dat on it.
That work's always faster than loading the gparted.dat from CD, I presume. So that's OK for me.
Yours
Rava
Rava