This may be helpful. I've got two nearly identical Compaq Evo desktops at the office. One loaded 10.10 flawlessly from the usb and the other one died on the squashfs file system mount (using the very same usb). Since they're so similar, the differences might be important. I've uploaded the lshw output from both machines here (the machine which failed to load 10.10 is running 8.10):
http://www.ncf.ca/~es625/usb_install_non_working_compaq and here: http://web.ncf.ca/~es625/usb_install_working_compaq Maybe someone can figure out what's going on. One difference that could be a factor is in the video driver: Bad machine: *-pci description: Host bridge product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: p...@0000:00:00.0 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: driver=agpgart-intel module=intel_agp <= *-display UNCLAIMED <= Good machine: *-pci description: Host bridge product: 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 100 bus info: p...@0000:00:00.0 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz configuration: driver=agpgart-intel <= resources: irq:0 memory:f8000000-fbffffff <= *-display <= -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/636711 Title: 10.10 can't mount squashfs file system -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs