Bug#116991: no subject)

[pjordan@whitehorse.blackwire.com]

> Now, I can do
> # chmod ug+w /dev/loop*
> # mount -o loop rescue.bin /floppy 
> and get
> Could not find a spare loop device (repeated 3x)
> Mounting rescue.bin on /floppy failed: Success
> (and no, /floppy is empty and mount does not show that it has been
> mounted.)
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?

Use losetup and you will see your loop devices are getting gobbled up 
with each try until you have no more.

Maybe it fails in the first place because you
don't have msdos/fat fs support in your kernel ?
And of course you have to have loopback support.
I think I have had this problem before once
upong a time and it was the filesystem support
but it was too long ago now to be sure.

Peter