[PLUG] mount failure, not a directory

Garl Grigsby badd_karma at comcast.net
Mon Aug 30 17:57:02 UTC 2004


Michael Rasmussen wrote:

>   [root at newbox mnt]# ls -l /root/cd.iso
>   -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     673635508 Aug 30 11:17 /root/cd.iso
>   [root at newbox mnt]# ls -ld /mnt/iso
>   drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 30 13:14 /mnt/iso
>   [root at newbox mnt]# mount  -o loop /root/cd.iso /mnt/iso
>   mount: Not a directory
>   [root at newbox mnt]# mount -t iso9660  -o loop /root/cd.iso /mnt/iso
>   mount: Not a directory
>   [root at newbox mnt]#
>  
>
What does the following show?

    ls /dev/loop*

 Do the loop devices exist? If not you might not have loop support in 
your kernel. Try the following:

    lsmod | grep loop

if you get nothing there, try

    modprobe loop

Garl





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