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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:04:59
Message-Id: 200610302028.37169.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices by Alan McKinnon
1 On 30 October 2006 17:59, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Monday 30 October 2006 16:57, Harm Geerts wrote:
3 > > On Monday 30 October 2006 13:54, Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 > > > Hi all,
5 > > >
6 > > > I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev...
7 > > > And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I
8 > > > imagine it's done with udev rules - anyone have working rules for
9 > > > this that they'd be willing to share?
10 > > >
11 > > > alan
12 > >
13 > > Do you have support for loop devices in your kernel?
14 > > udev has default rules for this in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
15 >
16 > Problem solved! With the last kernel upgrade I must have changed my loop
17 > devices from compiled in to modular, and there's no "loop" entry
18 > in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. If I "modprobe loop" everything
19 > works like it's supposed to.
20
21 Hm... My loop devices are compiled as modules, I don't have any loop entry
22 in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 - but my loop devices are all there
23 under /dev.
24
25 Magic? White magic, black magic? Actually, this white=good and black=bad stuff
26 is a bit of a no-no here in Africa. ;-)
27
28 Uwe
29
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>