LILO boot floppy

[Anita Lewis]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:32:26 -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
> 

The way I make a lilo boot floppy is to modify /etc/lilo.conf so that the
top line is boot=/dev/fd0 instead of /dev/hdxx.  Then I put a floppy in and
run /sbin/lilo.  The resulting floppy gives me a lilo prompt and boots the
kernel on the hard drive.  Is that what you are looking for?  I usually then
change /etc/lilo.conf back to what it was for when I next need to update
LILO in the mbr.

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Anita
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