[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: mounting squashfs-image fails with "block device required"

[From: Sascha Heid]

> A device entry in /dev doesn't actually mean your kernel has support for the
> device.  I expect your kernel doesn't have loopback device support.  Cat
> "/proc/devices", under "Block devices:" you should see "7 loop", i.e.
>
> Block devices:
>   1 ramdisk
>   3 ide0
>   7 loop
>   9 md
>  11 sr
>  22 ide1
> 253 device-mapper
> 254 mdp

cat /proc/devices gives me this:

Block devices:
    7 loop
    7 loop
  31 mtdblock
254 mmc

Does having loop twice there indicate any problems?

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y is in the defconfig and in mine as well since i
only added squashfs into it.

Regards
Sascha