LILO boot floppy

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Well, I'm using 7.1, but your comment may be right.  Anyway, I tried
root X login and a pty console login, and they both get the exact
same thing.  There's nothing documented about chroot(1) or chroot(2)
that would account for this.

Sigh.

++ kevin



On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:46:57PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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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