I modified start_udev with the following: if [ -x $MAKEDEV ]; then $MAKEDEV -x $( for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15; do echo cpu/$i/microcode; done; for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do echo tty$i;done; for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 \ ; do echo loop$i; done; for i in 0 1 2 3; do echo lp$i; echo parport$i;done; echo net/tun ppp console null zero; for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 \ 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 \ 30 31; do echo md$i;done; ); [ -a /dev/MAKEDEV ] || ln -s $MAKEDEV /dev/MAKEDEV; cp -a /etc/udev/devices/* /dev/ >/dev/null 2>&1 || : fi Notice that loop now goes up to 15, for a total of 16 loop devices. If I modify this to go up to 31, I get errors at startup that say the loop device cannot be created. What do I have to do? In my dev directory, I previously created devices up to loop63. Thanks, Ken Lee