LILO boot floppy

[Joel Hammer]

Don't know the answer but:

RH 7.0 is a pain. If you su to root, the paths remain those of your
regular user. Maybe there is some similar nuisance operating here. Try
logging on as root. (Hey, this is computers, not logic.) 

Joel

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:32:26PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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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