On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:10 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >One reason may be cause I'm on a fully udev system now. > > > > > > > > That doesn't matter, if you have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes in > /etc/conf.d/rc. What this does is cause the system to archive all of > the device nodes that exist in /dev on shutdown, and restore those on > startup. So, if you have that, you just need to:
grep -i device_tarball /etc/conf.d/rc RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" > # cd /dev > # /sbin/MAKEDEV loop ls -l /dev/ | grep loop brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Jun 16 11:39 loop0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Jun 16 11:39 loop1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Jun 16 11:39 loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Jun 16 11:39 loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Jun 16 11:39 loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Jun 16 11:39 loop5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Jun 16 11:39 loop7 sudo mount -o loop /mnt/hdc2/ISOs/Gentoo-install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso /mnt/cdrom/ ls -l | grep loop drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Jun 16 11:39 loop lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop0 -> loop/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop1 -> loop/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop2 -> loop/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop3 -> loop/3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop4 -> loop/4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop5 -> loop/5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop6 -> loop/6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jun 16 11:39 loop7 -> loop/7 /var/log/messages : loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Seems it will load the loop device automatically Only thing now is to see if reboot makes it stay. (I think it didn't retain because at one point I made RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:38:33 up 57 min, 5 users, load average: 0.37, 0.43, 0.70 -- [email protected] mailing list
