[arch-releng] module 'loop' not loaded

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2014 03:16 AM, Christian Hesse wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I just built a fresh image that fails to boot with:
>>
>> losetup: cannot find an unused loop device
>>
>> Looks like modules 'loop' is no longer loaded automatically when needed. It
>> is included in initramfs, though. Any idea what package changed it's
>> behavior? Forcing to load the module is easy, but what's the clean way to fix
>> this?
>>
>
> maybe systemd, maybe kmod... also there is a error about missing
> hwdb.bin in initramfs maybe related, maybe not, i need some time to
> research...
>
> use earlymodules=loop for now.

Not sure if helpful / related, but there's a hwdb.bin thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189536