looking to edit boot image

[pubecon]

as I understand it, to edit the contents of the boot.img you

mount -o loop boot.img /mountpoint

but for me that returns

• mount: you must specify the filesystem type

now, when using the loop option I've never had to specify a type before and I think I've tried ever -t parameter there is. or maybe I haven't.


what am I missing?

[santakaos]

the filesystem is msdos, so the code is:

mount -t msdos -o loop file.img /mountpoint

Bye.
SANTA. (Spain)

[pubecon]

I realised soon after posting that I was lacking the msdos file system support in my kernel.


there goes my supposed gentoo wisdom credability.