[ILUG] How to look inside a boot img file

[Niall O Broin]

On 11 Feb 2005, at 17:25, Frank Murphy wrote:

> On 2/11/2005 5:15:25 PM, Glen Gray (glen at lincor.com) wrote:
>> Am I missing something particular about this product ? Shouldn't you
>> just be able to mount it loopback
>> mount -o loop bootkdisk.img /mnt/floppy
>
> Won't let me mount unless I specify fs, thats where the problem lies,
> tries as ext2,3 etc no joy.
>
> Floppy 1 is linux based, though it won't allow me read\mount it.
> If booted from it's linux
> Floppies  2,3,4,5 come up as fat32.

What does "file bootkdisk.img" say? Perhaps its compressed in some way? 
If it's a bootable disk it won't necessarily be mountable in loopback 
mode - it could, for instance, be a kernel on a floppy (though AFAIR 
that's not possible with anything resembling a current kernel)


Niall