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

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>]

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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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