Gentoo. Problems with the loop device when mounting an iso file

Snerkel · 11-26-2004, 09:37 AM

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