On 22.12.2013, Tom Horsley wrote: > Is there no loop device in the new 3.12.5 kernel by > default? In 3.12.6 vanilla, it definitely is. [htd at kiera ~]$ uname -a Linux kiera.fritha.org 3.12.6-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 19 16:55:38 CET 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux