Error: mount:cannot setup loop device: No such file or directory

[longtom]

Hi,

I suddenly get this message when using Appbrowser with any application I'd like to download.  However, I can surf the net with Opera.  Any suggestion what the problem might be and how it can be rectified?

[JoXo009]

Maybe you are run out of loops.

max_loop=100 ore more may be worth a try as additional boot code in the /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst kernel line:
kernel /boot/bzImage max_loop=100 home=hda1 kmap=xxxx quiet

[longtom]

Loops?    I must admit I have to learn about that one....  What is a loop?

[JoXo009]

Loops?   

Uuups - loop devices are meant

Each tcz extension needs a loop device.

So did your problem disappear after increasing the device number by max_loop=100?

[longtom]

Nope - can't even start up into a Gui anymore....  mount: cannot setup loop[ device: No such file or directory...

Can't remember doing anything offensive - but here I am.

[JoXo009]

Nope - can't even start up into a Gui anymore....  

So hopefully you have set a snapshot or even better stored the last working version as clone and can return to that version now.

To my experience that's the usual way when testing ideas of your own. Think I returned/lost my install several hundred times till I got the solution running I was searching for.

Linux just keeps us busy.

Good luck

[Guy]

How are you running Tiny Core? Are you running from a CD, installed on a hard drive, or installed on a USB drive?

If you have it installed on a hard drive, you can use the grub commands as explained on this page. You can use the other method of installation if you want, but this page explains how to set up grub for loop devices.

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/tiki-index.php?page=Install

You need to include: max_loop=255 (or another number)