Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On 30 October 2006 17:59, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.

Hm... My loop devices are compiled as modules, I don't have any loop entry 
in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 - but my loop devices are all there 
under /dev.

Magic? White magic, black magic? Actually, this white=good and black=bad stuff 
is a bit of a no-no here in Africa. ;-)

Uwe

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