!! Invalid loop location (Gparted liveCD Guidance) (Page 1 of 3)

Hi
From witch drive do you boot off ?
I guess it might be external usb drive, right ?

If you are merely trying to erase your HD and not more than that you can always use some HDD makers' specialized software. From what I know WD & SeaGate (and I think Maxtor, Samsung and Hitachi as well...) have specialized free software to manage their HDDs. Usually you make one or two bootable floppies with it. Both WD and SeaGate are using Knoll's tools that include the option "write zeros to the entire drive". Be careful though!!!! After using this there is NO WAY of retrieving data...

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This usually come from the root=/dev/XXX which is not good.
If you end up coming back to the shell, could you please try to type this :
# ls /dev/s
and then hit tab key, and gimme the output

You may have something like this :

Well this is my PC, and not done from within the livecd, but it is just e.g.

First thank you Larry for beeing so quick to answer. Merci

Here is what i got

/newroot # ls /dev/s   [TAB]
/dev/sda        /dev/sda3       /dev/sdb1       /dev/sg0       /dev/synth
/dev/sda1      /dev/sda5       /dev/sdc         /dev/sg1
/dev/sda2      /dev/sdb         /dev/sdc1       /dev/sg2

/newroot # ls /dev/sr   [TAB does nothing and then hit ENTER]
No such file or directory

/newroot # _

I really hope this will help

I am going to try a lil more but I edited it and then pressed escape and e again and the line was back to just cdroot. I re-edited it to cdroot=/dev/sg1 and pressed esc twice then enter and i could see in the command line the parameter was back to cdroot. Ill try pressing enter after editing it or sumthing.

so :
e to edit
e to edit the line again
then use arrow to find cdroot and add =/dev/sxx (be careful : us keyboard here !!!) but i guess this not a problem with you
then ENTER
and "b" to boot
(well in fact you can see it is exactly what you can read at the bottom of the screen

OK I just red your second last post but this is what I figured with a tiny bit of reading once booted on the live cd. unfortunately it didn't work but ill try changing the delay too now. I just want to say I am very impressed with your dedication... Thank you. Ill give it to you in 10 minutes...

well the last thing is the most easier in fact :-p
I forgot to mention it before (since I caught a cold last night, my mind is a bit slow )
when you got the shell with /newroot , try to find somewhere something like /mnt/s** or may be it is directly mnt/s** or dev/... or /dev/....

This is the way I used to point out how to boot off external usb cdrom. I remember I got the /newroot and then I found what was the exact name of the device i needed to use.

If you can't find it, i will try by myself : I know how to get the same error you reported. But maybe you will find alone ?

Gonna sleep now and treat my cold

Okay, i got it !
Booting off a external usb cdrom with first option, it stops on keymap choice as expected.
On the above line I can read :
Media found on /dev/iseries/vcd*
Then I set my keymap
And it hangs, reporting :

Then we got the ash :

At this poit try this :

and hit "TAB key" twice
Here, it returns many devices like : sda1, sda2, sda..., sdb1,... sde1,... sdg0, sdg1, sdg3, AND sr0 !
Here it is : the cdroot must be set to this :

Then you have to edit grub like we mentioned it above. The fifth option of the current livecd is a good example, since it is already set to cdroot=/dev/sr0
So just edit this line and make the correction you thing you should. You may increase the scandelay to 10, 15 or 20.

Tell me if it rocks ?

it is not necessary sr0 : it might be something else.
Do you know where your cdrom device is attached ? Is it sata, ide, scsi, usb, ?

New pc with scsi cdrom?
I now see scsi devices only in some servers.