Finnix 107 introduced loopback support and a loopback.cfg, but was missing an ext4 module for the initrd, so the ISO could not be loop booted from an ext4 filesystem.
I submitted a bug report about this ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/finnix/+bug/1114788 ) which is shown as fixed roughly three weeks before the release of Finnix 108. However, attempts to loop boot Finnix from an ext4-formatted USB fail, dumping to a debug shell, with a note to mount the Finnix media on /ramdisk/cdrom. Following is a short copy of my attempts to mount the USB (ext4) filesystem. Given the output messages, it appears to me that the ext4 module still isn't included. Can somebody please advise? Also, is snapshots.finnix.org still working? When I go there I just see a textbox with a url ( http://snapshots.finnix.org/neale-builds/kif/ ) . Attepting to load that url 404's. / # mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw,realtime) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,realtime) none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,realtime,size=1865248k,nr_inodes=466321,mode=755) tmpfs on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,realtime,size=3026920k) / # blkid /dev/sdb1" LABEL="Linux" UUID="c0d16de8-0d19-4e9c-ac81-21821114fe05" TYPE="ext4" / # mkdir /ramdisk/Linux / # mount /dev/sdb1 /ramdisk/Linux [ 263.072835] FAT-fs (sdb1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! [ 263.076669] EXT2-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /ramdisk/Linux failed: Invalid argument / # mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /ramdisk/Linux [ 6320.685864] EXT2-fs (sdb1): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /ramdisk/Linux failed: Invalid argument / # mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /ramdisk/Linux mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /ramdisk/Linux failed: No such device
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