I recently dual booted linux mint on my laptop, and I came across the infinite squashfs error (an infinite amount of "SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page" and "SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data counting up, I think because I took out the usb and pressed enter too quickly) I couldn't do anything, so I shut down and restarted, upon restart, its running fine? No corruption.
Edit: I reinstalled and waited a while after unplugging before and enter did not work, I hit escape and this happened again, though text is bigger and slower
3 Comments
qprimed@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 2y
if the install had finished and the installer was simply reading the flash drive to clean itself up, unmount filesystems and reboot, then chances are you are fine. However, as a personal rule I never allow an installation to go into production if there were any unexpected anomalies during installation. its just not worth the risk.
the_third@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y
GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
I had this or a similar issue right after installation many times. I force rebooted and everything was fine. I wouldn't worry about it too much
bloodfart@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
No, you’re fine. You just yanked the install media before it was done putting itself away. Depending on how it was made, the install media might not even be damaged.