tcz loop devices not mounting from remastered ISO image

[nsqtr]

I've got a microcore 2.3 image that I've remastered with a few tcz's, which loop mount fine when I run the ISO inside of a VMWare image, but when I burn to disk and boot a physical machine, the loop mounts fail.

However, I can mount the tcz's manually after the system has booted completely, then run "ldconfig -r /" and everything works swell.

I'm puzzled, of course, since things work as planned when I boot the ISO to a VMWare image.

I've got syslogd fire up but nothing shows up in the log or dmesg.  I can see some sort of error messages fly by, but I can't seem to trap them.

any ideas on how to debug this is greatly appreciated.

thanks

[roberts]

Adding pause to your boot options should pause the screen so you can read the boot messages.

[nsqtr]

thanks. that helped. I'd not explicitly created /dev/loop devices when I scooped up the file system. I guess there is some sort of race condition that occurs and in the vm image I'd not seen it.  Creating /dev/loop files before I cpio'ed fixed the problem.