From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeZeL-0005Kd-Ss for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:06:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UG326A000295; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:03:02 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UFwRiW025336 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:58:28 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69BE83472 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:05:45 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ve0DStq3yXmy for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:05:41 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088A883471 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:05:41 +0200 (SAST) Received: from jimmynote.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.87]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:00:19 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:59:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301454.48014.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610301557.08451.harmgeerts@home.nl> In-Reply-To: <200610301557.08451.harmgeerts@home.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610301759.53225.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2006 16:00:19.0187 (UTC) FILETIME=[7F5FF430:01C6FC3C] X-Archives-Salt: e314c75a-424d-4d55-b445-e0fcaa11e614 X-Archives-Hash: 1b956b202e2e2d45ec902e187f6f4cc6 On Monday 30 October 2006 16:57, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... > > And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I > > imagine it's done with udev rules - anyone have working rules for > > this that they'd be willing to share? > > > > alan > > Do you have support for loop devices in your kernel? > udev has default rules for this in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules Problem solved! With the last kernel upgrade I must have changed my loop devices from compiled in to modular, and there's no "loop" entry in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. If I "modprobe loop" everything works like it's supposed to. Earlier I had also run "grep -i loop /etc/udev/*" and got no results, which sent me into a tailspin - note the spectacular omission of the -r parameter. it's been a very long day :-) Thanks for the pointers alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list