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James Miller wrote:
>
> However, it seems that the lilo for BL1 is some sort 
> of trimmed down version (isn't it, Steven?), 

lilo itself is not trimmed, but the package lacks some
of the usual lilo bits & pieces.  It was designed simply 
for booting BasicLinux (without altering the MBR), not 
as a multi-purpose boot manager.

> When I installed it and edited lilo.conf to add my DOS 
> partition, when I went to run lilo, I was told chain.b 
> was missing.  

You can probably copy chain.b from another lilo installation
(I don't think it's version specific).

> It gets as far as mounting the filesystem readonly, 

That's your problem.

> frees unused memory, then starts init.  But right 
> after that I get
> ------------------------------------------
> No more tasks for init -- sleeping forever
> ------------------------------------------

That's what happens when you boot BL3 readonly.  It must
be booted read-write.  There's a lilo parameter for that.

Cheers,
Steven

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