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Hi guys Im pretty new to thhis distro and I fell in love with it after a month.

Im not an experienced linux user and I learnt hard way why dd is refereed to as "disk destroyer'.....
My issue started,when I tried dd-ing an iso on ll3 and instead of sdb i set it to sda.
After hours of fails I managed to boot Lubuntu from my android and installed it.

Now every time I try to install LL3 I get the following message on starting live session from usb(and phone):

(initframs) mount: mounting /dev/loop1 (cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs failed: no usch device

After that If I type exit in busybox it will continue to setup and end up in kernel panic and just freeze.

Things I tried:
1.Re-downloading iso's  and checking md5sum (always the same md5)
2.Formating the usb to fat/fat32 and using Unetbootin (fails on initframs)
3.Trying to boot from Android (drivedroid app) (fails on initframs)
4.Disconnecting everything except ethernet,keyboard and usb (fails on initframs)
5.dd-ing it to usb (fails on initframs)
6.Trying 32bit (fails on initframs)
7.Changing usb's (fails on initframs)
8.Trying 2.8 (fails on initframs)
9. Using recommended gtk usb maker on both lite 3.0 and 2.8 (fails on initframs)

I had no issues before launching live session from usb,but since I dd my whole HDD I cant (Had to create all new partition table and whip it clean) .
I read that this usually happens when md5 is off,when usb is out of mem,when there isnt enough ram.... but everything is fine (I have a gig of ram,8gb usb,md5 is consistent...).
I managed even to live boot Kubuntu,but not Lite.....

Id really like if someone could help me out as this is by far the best "legacy" distro and I got used to it very much (kernel is a beauty)!

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Anyone else have any idea what might be going wrong here.  I don't.

Quote:Now every time I try to install LL3 I get the following message on starting live session from usb(and phone)

Is he trying to install LL 3.0 to a smartphone......?

Jocklad

(09-10-2016, 01:19 PM)Jocklad link Wrote: [ -> ]Is he trying to install LL 3.0 to a smartphone......?

Jocklad

Good question!  I've read the post a few times and honestly I'm not sure exactly where OP is trying to install to or boot from.  Initially talks about accidentally dd'ing the wrong drive and I assume it's a desktop/laptop being talked about, but who knows?

Not famliar with this app but here it is.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...roid&hl=en

Apparently enables live ISOs via phone to computer connection.

TC

My guess is, given the app, and the fact that he wiped the disk, the app won't work to install anything because there has to be a running Linux system on the HDD to even use the app to create installable media in the first place. Just install some kind of Linux OS to the HDD, and the app will work again to add other OSs.

TC

(09-10-2016, 01:19 PM)Jocklad link Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:Now every time I try to install LL3 I get the following message on starting live session from usb(and phone)

Is he trying to install LL 3.0 to a smartphone......?

Jocklad

No

I dd my desktop and I didnt had a backup LiveUSB so I had to use drivedroid app which basically transforms your phone to LiveUsb.
Once I set up new partition table layout on hard and installed Ubuntu MATE i proceeded to make new LiveUSB for Lite 3.0 so I can go back to it,but what ever I tried I got that initframs fail.

Don't know why LL is having that problem, but plugged error message into search engine and found this:
http://www.hacktohell.org/2011/07/fixing...while.html.

Give that a shot and see if it works.

(09-10-2016, 04:42 PM)gold_finger link Wrote: [ -> ]Don't know why LL is having that problem, but plugged error message into search engine and found this:
http://www.hacktohell.org/2011/07/fixing...while.html.

Give that a shot and see if it works.

Dayum I missed this one....
Will try it ASAP

This is probably it. I had the same problem with LXDE once. I am wondering, just for information's sake, are you copying the LL ISO from "drivedroid" to Mate first and then creating the live USB, or are you using your phone as a live emulated drive to install LL? Is the LL live ISO available on "drivedroid"?

TC