Re: Missing loop devices?

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

You can make them yourself, I suppose

mknod loop0 b 7 0
mknod loop1 b 7 1
mknod loop2 b 7 2
...



On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Pann McCuaig wrote:

> I built a kernel with loop device support, but they seem to be missing.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> $ ls -ltr /boot/*34
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         6601 Aug 18 16:38 /boot/config-2.0.34
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        83404 Aug 18 16:45 /boot/System.map-2.0.34
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       384066 Aug 18 16:45 /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
> 
> $ grep -i "loop" /boot/config-2.0.34 
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/l*
> brw-rw----   1 root     cdrom     24,   0 Mar 22  1998 /dev/lmscd
> srw-rw-rw-   1 root     root            0 Oct  9 19:03 /dev/log
> crw-------   1 root     sys       10,   0 Mar 22  1998 /dev/logibm
> crw-------   1 root     sys       10,   0 Mar 22  1998 /dev/logimouse
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   0 Mar 22  1998 /dev/lp0
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   1 Mar 22  1998 /dev/lp1
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   2 Mar 22  1998 /dev/lp2
> crw-rw----   1 root     lp         6,   3 Mar 22  1998 /dev/lp3
> 
> Cheers,
>  Pann
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