installing onto a loopback device

[Piotr R <tytus64@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to create a disk image with a customized version of Cento6 installation on my Centos6 machine. I am planning to dump this image to a disk of an embedded device. I thought I could use a loopback device as the installation destination instead of  a real disk but when I put "loop0" in kickstart file I am getting the following error:

The following error was found while parsing the kickstart configuration file:

The following problem occurred on line 36 of the kickstart file:

Specified nonexistent disk loop0 in partition command

Here is my kickstart file:

#platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T

#version=DEVEL

# Firewall configuration

firewall --disabled

# Install OS instead of upgrade

install

# Use hard drive installation media

repo --name=centos6 --baseurl=file://my/repo/path/centos6_repo/os/x86_64

# Root password

rootpw --iscrypted $1$2ThvVzg7$PCHK8TnCECOjzbRV4VPzo1

# Network information

#network --onboot yes --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6

#network  --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth1 --_onboot_=on

# System authorization information

auth --useshadow --passalgo=sha512

# Use graphical install

#graphical

# System keyboard

keyboard us

# System language

lang en_US

# SELinux configuration

selinux --disabled

# Do not configure the X Window System

skipx

# Installation logging level

logging --level=debug

# System timezone

timezone  America/New_York

# System bootloader configuration

bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=loop0

# Partition clearing information

#clearpart --all --drives=loop0 --initlabel

# Disk partitioning information

part / --fstype="ext4" --grow --_ondisk_=loop0 --size=1

%packages --excludedocs --nobase

@core --nodefaults

#anaconda

-ipw2100-firmware

-ipw2200-firmware

-ivtv-firmware

-iwl100-firmware

-iwl1000-firmware

-iwl3945-firmware

-iwl4965-firmware

-iwl5000-firmware

-iwl5150-firmware

-iwl6000-firmware

-iwl6000g2a-firmware

-iwl6000g2b-firmware

-iwl6050-firmware

#-kernel-firmware

-libertas-usb8388-firmware

-ql2100-firmware

-ql2200-firmware

-ql23xx-firmware

-ql2400-firmware

-ql2500-firmware

-rt61pci-firmware

-rt73usb-firmware

-xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware

-zd1211-firmware

%end

%post --erroronfail

#!/bin/bash

umount /proc/bus/usb

umount /proc

umount /sys

umount /selinux

umount /dev/pts

umount /dev/shm

umount /dev

%end

reboot

The empty image fle was created in the following way:

# qemu-img create -f raw /my/path/cie.img 1G

and then attached to /dev/loop0 (before running anaconda):

# losetup -v -f /my/path/cie.img 

Loop device is /dev/loop0

Any help greatly appreciated, 

Piotr

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