Re: [Qemu-devel] Mounting a disk image under Linux

[Benjamin Brown]

Thanks.

I did an sfdisk on the file and added -o loop,32256 to the mount command.
I know nothing of low level stuff so thats quite an achievement for me, 
I learn something new everyday ;)

Benjamin


Gianni Tedesco wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 17:34 +0100, Benjamin Brown wrote:
>  
>
> > I created a disk image under (host) Linux using dd and fdisked and
> > formatted using a (guest)Windows 98 boot disk under QEMU.
> > I then tried to mount this under linux to add files to it using:
> >
> > mount -o loop /opt/qemu/tempImage /mnt/tempImage
> >
> > This failed and asked me for the filesystem type so I specified:
> >
> > mount -o loop -t vfat /opt/qemu/tempImage /mnt/tempImage
> >
> > This also failed with the error:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> > (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
> > ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
> >
> > Any ideas why this happens - this should just a straight fat formatted
> > disk image?
> >    
>
> *bzzzt* it's partitioned ;)
>
> You need to do losetup manually and specify an offset (`expr 512 \* 63`
> usually).
>
>  
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