> > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Keith Gilman wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to mount the initrd filesystem as a
> > > loopback device but not having much luck. Do I need to do an
> > > mkfs /dev/loop0 to create a loopback device or can I just create the
> > > directory? If I have to do mkfs, what is the syntax? What is the
> > > command to mount a loopback filesystem?
> >
> > No you don't need to make a filesystem - you should already have one, the
> > one what you to mount as a loopback device :-)
> >
> > The general format of the mount command is......
> >
> > mount -o loop /path_to/image.file /mnt/mountpoint
> >
> > You may have to gunzip the initrd image if it's already compressed, before
> > mounting it. I've just checked on my desktop and I think you won't need
> > to.
>
> Do you know if loopback support has to be in the kernel? I'm
> getting "mount: could not find a spare loop device"
>
I think you'll find it's a module.
try "insmod loop"
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