LILO boot floppy

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I used to build LILO boot floppies all the time.  They had a very
small filesystem, with /dev/*, /boot/* and /etc/lilo.conf, a kernel
and sometimes an initrd.  They were maintained, if I recall, by
mounting them, them doing 
   /sbin/lilo -r /mnt/floppy

However, nowadays when I try that on RH 7.1, i get an error
    Fatal: open /dev/fd0: Permission denied 

I do this as root, of course, and so I have to ask what more
permission do I need?  The floppy contains /dev/fd0, identical
to that on the real filesystem, with the same permissions.

Anyone have a clue?  Anyone have a SxS?

++ kevin



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