Hello, Guys! dd if=/dev/zero of=/mydir/myfile bs=1024 count=10000 mkfs -t ext2 /mydir/myfile mount /mydir/myfile /mnt -o loop Each command works OK, but after doing the last one, mount says "Segmentation Fault" and shows _this_ thing to the tenth console: MVER - is my machine's name Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 04f77000, %cr3 = 04f77000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Oops: 0000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c8878746>] Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: 00004c00 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: esi: c8879610 edi: 00000700 ebp: fffffff7 esp: c764ff6c Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Process mount (pid: 22567, process nr: 89, stackpage=c764f000) Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Stack: 00000003 00004c00 c0124576 c7470700 c8878ed3 c8879610 00000700 00000003 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: c2da09e0 ffffffe7 c012c4b9 c7476bb0 c2da09e0 00004c00 00000003 c764e000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: 00000003 bffff628 bffff628 c35b1260 c7476bb0 c0108f88 00000005 00004c00 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Call Trace: [blkdev_open+50/64] [<c8878ed3>] [<c8879610>] [sys_ioctl+413/440] [system_call+52/56] Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Code: 8b 0c 82 85 c9 74 03 ff 41 1c 89 cb 85 db 0f 84 ae 01 00 00 Any ideas of how to make it work? Thanks, George. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/