Did you attempt to build support for the "loop device" in the kernel? This is the devices like /dev/loop0 where you can mount a disk image as if it were a physical disk. Looks like they screwed up this code with 2.4.14. I tell you, the Linux kernels seem especially cranky in the 2.4.X series. I don't ever recall the developers completely breaking stuff with updates. Anyway, I compiled the loop support as a module, and end up getting unresolved symbols when trying to install it. I hope they can get a 2.4.X kernel out the door without messed up code. Of course, I don't see how they get *any* kernels out the door anymore given their size and the huge number of maintainers!
