Dirk H. Schulz wrote: <snip>- I venture it is because the second partition is LVM (8e). > > Did anybody out there succeed in mounting an LVM partition out of an > image file? > > That's why kpartx (for lvm) and lomount exist ;-) Don't forget after you've used kpartx -a to use lvscan to discover your lv and vgchange ... -- - Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> "Internet network currently down, TCP/IP packets delivered now by UPS/Fedex ..."