On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 07:50:17PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> Hi Edwin, > Andreas> > Andreas> today I had exactly the same problem on my potato box with > Andreas> kernel version 2.4.2. So I tried to reboot with kernel > Andreas> 2.2.18 and it worked without any problems. I'm afraid there > Andreas> is something wrong with the loop module in kernel 2.4.2 or > Andreas> maybe an incompatibility with the version of mount from > Andreas> potato. > Andreas> > > Loopback device support is currently broken in 2.4.2. Trying to mount an > ISO image using the loopback device will hang mount so badly that even > kill -9 on it won't work. > > The bug has been fixed though, in either the ac3 or ac4 patch. > > -- > Salman Ahmed > ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com > I've just downloaded the ac6-patch for kernel 2.4.2 from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4 and compiled a new kernel. The loopback device support is working again.
Thanks for your help. Bye Andreas Schmidt
