[Gumstix-users] Mounting loopback?

[john r. <jo...@cf...>]

Hi,

This is an offshoot from the Ethernet Bandwidth thread.

Pascal Brisset had suggested that he saw better performance
with an older 2.6.11 kernel and that I could get one from an
old root fs image.  I downloaded the image and thought that I
would mount it loopback, extract the old kernel and modules.

Since the gumstix is the only linux box that I have with jffs
on it I coppied the image (root_fs_arm.r773) to /mnt/mmc and
tried to mount it.

# pwd
/mnt/mmc

# ls
root_fs_arm.r773        rootfs.arm_nofpu.jffs2

# ls -ld /mnt/r773
drwx------    2 root     root            0 Dec 31 16:15 /mnt/r773

# mount -o loop -t jffs2 /mnt/mmc/root_fs_arm.r773 /mnt/r773
mount: Couldn't setup loop device
mount: Mounting (null) on /mnt/r773 failed: No such file or directory

Does the gumstix have loopback?  Any idea what I did wrong here?

Thanks,

John