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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 floppy: lilo an add-on?
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:46:15 +1200

James Miller wrote:
>
> I've understood it's somewhat tricky to get lilo on a floppy.

Yes, it was tricky. Especially since there is an initrd that
needs to be unpacked to a ramdisk.

> Could you explain a bit about how you did that, for those of
> us with a superficial sense of tech-curiosity?

put an ext2 filesystem on the floppy
mount floppy at /fd
copy zimage to /fd
copy boot.b to /fd
copy disk1.gz to /fd
edit /etc/lilo.conf to look like this:
-----------------------
boot=/dev/fd0
install=/fd/boot.b
map=/fd/map
delay=50
read-write
image=/fd/zimage
label=BL3_ramdisk
root=/dev/ram
initrd=/fd/disk1.gz
image=/fd/zimage
label=hd
-----------------------
execute lilo -v
umount /fd


Cheers,
Steven





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