boot from CD cannot mount /dev/loop0

[wolf99]

Hi Folks

I just dl'ed and burnt a 10.04 ubuntu disk (using infra recorder), and popped it in, the ubuntu load screen showed and progress got nearly done then a message shows:

"(initramfs) mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: input/output error.

Can not mount /dev/loop0 (cdrom/casperfilesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs."

Can I rescue this disc?

thanks

EDIT: I did have a 9.1 disc somewhere that did work OK before now (but lost is )

[Kiesel]

same here, the 64 bit doesnt mount with that exact same error) but the 32 bit version of lucid lynx does.
i found the 32 bit version somewhere in my box so i guess its not the snapshot but the 64 version is.
im runing out of cd's here
i will try to use a pendrive installation and see how that goes.
greets, kiesel

/edit: i decided to go with the dvd instead of the cd. the dvd is still 10.04, not 10.04.1. Everything worked fine

[kc5hwb]

I'm getting this error with 2 burned CDs and on 2 separate computers. One was my laptop which is a Toshiba Satalite P105 and one is a desktop that I built myself, which has an ABIT MB and AMD64 CPU. I downloaded and burned Lucid 10.04 and got this error on these 2 machines so I went ahead and burned the ISO again to another CD, and I am still getting this same error.

I am trying the DVD download now and will attempt install from there.

[kc5hwb]

UPDATE:
I downloaded and installed the DVD version of 10.04 and it is working great. I have Googled this error and found a couple of other sites that talk about having this issue when installing for the CD burned from the ISO from ubuntu.com. Is there a known issue with this release?

[horbrastar]

I'm seeing exactly the same error --- anyone know what the cause is?

[gibbogle]

I am seeing this error as well. Not a good introduction to ubuntu .
Did the previous post mean that burning a DVD instead of a CD is a solution?

[LMD]

I just confirmed the above solution. I burnt the iso on a DVD Media and it worked fine. Confirming that the iso does not work when burning on CDR media. At least on my IBM ThinkPad T41.

[captlogic]

I'm having the same issue, however when I burn the ISO to a dvdr media I still get the same issue.

I will try a previous version.

[gibbogle]

I decided to try downloading the iso again. To my surprise the size of the .iso that I received was much different (bigger) than the previous one. I burned another CD, and this one works. Just to be sure, I did the md5sum check:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
and confirmed that the new .iso is correct. I don't know why the first one was so wrong. It seems that there can be a problem with the download, and this might explain many of the issues that people are reporting here.

[sflesch]

FWIW This thread helped me to take a look at my ISO. I discovered the download size was 154MB and saw that the 64-bit version was 686MB. I then went back to the download site and started the download again. Lo and Behold it is currently downloading 686MB for the 32-bit version, so my money is on a bad ISO somewhere.

Kind of odd though that a bad ISO was still bootable though, isn't it?

I hope this helps someone!