On Fri Jan 12 2001 at 11:32, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote:
> I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and trying to upgrade to
> 2.4.0-0.43.12 (before that also tried 2.4.0-0.43.11). I seem to have
> trouble with my loop devices, since:
>
> % sudo mkinitrd -v --omit-scsi-modules /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.43.12 2.4.0-0.43.12
> Using modules: ./kernel/drivers/ide/ide-mod.o ./kernel/drivers/ide/ide-probe-mod.o
>./kernel/drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
> All of your loopback devices are in use!
>
> % sudo losetup /dev/loop0
> loop: can't get info on device /dev/loop0: No such device or address
>
> (I get this for all the first 8 loop devices.)
>
> % sudo losetup /dev/loop8
> loop: can't open device /dev/loop8: No such device
>
> What's wrong? Any ideas how to fix this? (I get this same on another
> machine also running RH7 and 2.4.0-test11.)
Been there, done that...
You are missing the /dev/loop? device files. Create them with
mknod, major 7, minor 0->15 for each of the loop0->loop15 files.
Cheers
Tony
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