Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
This is not the real problem. Loopback is just broken. Jim Murray wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Compiling with kgcc compiler from RedHat 7.0 breaks loopback in the > way you describe on 2.4.2-prex kernels and I suspect also in the real 2.4.2. > > Jim > -- ===

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread J Sloan
Red Hat 7.x running nicely on a number of machines here w/ no problem, with all apologies to the Red Hat bashers - The real problem is loopback is broken, and the fix still needs to be merged. In the meantime, Jens Axboe's loop patches will make it work - ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/p

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread Jim Murray
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compiling with kgcc compiler from RedHat 7.0 breaks loopback in the way you describe on 2.4.2-prex kernels and I suspect also in the real 2.4.2. Jim > Please CC me on replies. I just joined the list and don't want > to miss any replies. > > I have be

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
loopback is broken in 2.4.2 AFAIK. You can grab the loop-6 patch and apply it to 2.4.2 and it should work. You should also upgrade modutils to 2.4.2 as it's required by 2.4.2 (so says the Change file anyways). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any ideas as to what is wrong? > The only thing I can think