Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > That would be true except I've beeen setting loop to since many > > kernel versions back. I actually suspect it's more a udev thing, > > there has been a lot of activity and changes

Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:51:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That would be true except I've beeen setting loop to since many > kernel versions back. I actually suspect it's more a udev thing, there > has been a lot of activity and changes with the rules recently. But I'm > too rushed to decrypt

Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: >   If you want loopback devices to "just work", they should be > compiled into the kernel, like so... > > make menuconfig > Device Drivers  ---> > Block devices  ---> > <*> Loopback device support > >   My guess is that somewhere along the line, th

Re: [gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:35:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > Hi all, > > Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo > > My various /dev/loop/* devices used to always JustWork, until a recent > update. Unfortunately I can't tell when the breakage happened. > > Right now what happens is I don't get these devices au

[gentoo-user] loop devices not present

2007-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo My various /dev/loop/* devices used to always JustWork, until a recent update. Unfortunately I can't tell when the breakage happened. Right now what happens is I don't get these devices automatically and 'mount - o loop' fails. A simple 'modprobe loop' fixes this,