I use kpartx for this kind of thing pretty successfully. On 12/11/2011 02:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i may regret asking this if i suddenly realize how to do it after i > hit ENTER but i still don't see a simple way to do this. > > for booting beagleboards and pandaboards, one normally uses an SD > card that is formatted as a tiny hard drive -- there's a partition > table, an initial DOS partition, and the rest of the card is typically > an ext2 or ext3 partition containing the root filesystem. > > if i have a byte-for-byte image file for the SD card, is it possible > to mount one of those internal filesystems? i'm well aware of the "-o > loop" option for mounting image files, but now i want to mount a > filesystem that's *inside* such an image file, so i can make changes > to it. > > can i do this? am i missing something stupidly obvious? > > rday >