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Snerkel 11-26-2004 09:37 AM

Gentoo. Problems with the loop device when mounting an iso file [Solved]
 
Hi, im trying to mount an iso file in gentoo, to do it im using the command mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/dir /mnt/iso but i get this error
Quote:

mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
i dont know how to get round this problem as i dont even know what the loop device is! can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance, Ben :)

geniarse 11-26-2004 11:03 AM

try this as root:

Code:

cd /dev
MAKEDEV loop

(note capital letters) if this doesn't work you may have to recompile the kernel with loop device support (or something of the ilk) but I don't know exactly where to find this

steve_d555 11-26-2004 01:55 PM

Did you enable loop devices in the kernel?
Should be under filesystems.

--Steve

Snerkel 11-26-2004 03:26 PM

ok, i tried MAKEDEV loop but i get this error:

Quote:

root@myroom dev # MAKEDEV loop
.devfsd presence implies active DevFS. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
and i configured my own kernel, it was not a first time thing i know how to configure it. i was looking through the kernel make menuconfig but i couldnt see anything to do with loop.

Can anyone help me ? im running the 2.6.9 kernel.

Thanks, :)

Snerkel 11-26-2004 03:34 PM

Ok All sorted

For referance visit this Gentoo forum thread


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