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

[Benjamin Brown <support@silentsoftware.co.uk>]

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:
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>>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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