Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs

2001-02-17 Thread Pete Toscano
Excellent! Thanks, that worked. pete On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thomas Molina wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pete Toscano wrote: > > > reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with > > the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek > > forward while writi

Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs

2001-02-17 Thread Thomas Molina
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pete Toscano wrote: > reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with > the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek > forward while writing a floppy? > > I was trying to make the GRUB boot disk by writing the stage 1 and 2 > loade

Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs

2001-02-17 Thread Pete Toscano
hmmm... I've been trying to play with GRUB on my 2.4.2-pre4 system. For safety's sake, I wanted to make a bookdisk with mkbootdisk. After reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek forward while writin

Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs

2001-02-17 Thread Ville Herva
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 12:42:42PM -0800, you [Nate Eldredge] claimed: > Alan Cox writes: > > > # mount -t ext2 -o loop /spare/i486-linuxaout.img /spare/mnt > > > loop: enabling 8 loop devices > > > > Loop does not currently work in 2.4. It might partly work by luck > > but thats it. This w

Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs

2001-02-17 Thread Nate Eldredge
Alan Cox writes: > > # mount -t ext2 -o loop /spare/i486-linuxaout.img /spare/mnt > > loop: enabling 8 loop devices > > Loop does not currently work in 2.4. It might partly work by luck > but thats it. This will change as and when the new loop patches go > in. Until then if you need loop u

Re: 2.4.1ac17 hang on mounting loopback fs

2001-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
> # mount -t ext2 -o loop /spare/i486-linuxaout.img /spare/mnt > loop: enabling 8 loop devices Loop does not currently work in 2.4. It might partly work by luck but thats it. This will change as and when the new loop patches go in. Until then if you need loop use 2.2 - To unsubscribe from this l