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

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    2 年前

    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
    11·
    2 年前

    Yep, that can happen. At that point everything installation related should already be unmounted, so just power it off hard and be done.

    Or just press AltGr-Print-S to emergency sync the disks and AltGr-Print-B to the reboot hard, magic sysrq keys.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 年前

    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
    11·
    2 年前

    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.