bug#310: bug#310: loopback mounting... b0rkt.

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:09:04PM -0600, Nate Riffe wrote:
> Just now Heather Stern made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> > 
> >   I have determined for myself that loopback mouting appears to flunk 
> >   regardless of type of object I hope to loop-mount.  In other words the
> >   bug is confirmed.
> > 
> > If there is anyone among -devel who has ever succeeded at doing any
> > loopback mounts on any lnx-bbc pre flavor could you please add some
> > notes about it to bug #310.  Try to be as specific as possible. Thanks.
> 
> The LNX-BBC does a loopback mount of /initrd/lnx.img at boot.  Have a
> look at /etc/init.d/mount.lnx.img to see how.

That script actually, does work - but other commands issued using exaclt
the same format (except of course the name of the img and the name of
the mountpoint) fail with "invalid argument".

In other words, insisting on filesystem type didn't help *my* image
mount up.  Perhaps lnx.img has some privileged status, because it had 
been mounted before and this is merely a remount?

It occurred to me that your mountpoint is one that is burned into the
plastic, so I tried mounting at /games (which is on the plastic, and
only has two things in it, which don't seem to be depended upon by other
toys).  No joy.


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