[LinuxBIOS] Mount linux elf image for netboot as loop device

[Nathanael Noblet]

On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Tony Cheng wrote:

>  
> I used mkelfImage to combined Linux Kernel 2.4.20 and initrd into elf 
> image for netboot. then I try to use "mount -o loop my_elfImage" to 
> mount this image as a loop device. I get a error message like this:

mkelfimage doesn't make a filesystem as far as I know, and only puts 
the kernel into a format that the linuxbios expects to find so it can 
load it into ram and jump to it. What you are asking to do is about as 
the same as mounting a compiled program as a filesystem. You can't do 
'mount -o loop /bin/bash /mnt/loop' anymore then you can mount the 
kernel file.

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