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 1GecRO-0001vY-Qj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:04:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UJ2d6a026826; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:02:39 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UIwGCR003719 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:58:17 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id C887A64F8 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:58:13 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD5983935 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:58:14 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.70]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id J7YQ1300.20N for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:58:15 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GebsD-0002av-Bo for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:28:37 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:28:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200610301454.48014.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <200610301557.08451.harmgeerts@home.nl> <200610301759.53225.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200610301759.53225.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> 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: <200610302028.37169.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: f1ac883b-cd15-4ee7-b1ca-a7abe5fa377f X-Archives-Hash: 8c8da7aad9ea0a26ce36946c289aa0d9 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 -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list