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["Karolis Lyvens" <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:52:29PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> Someone please tell me where I went wrong in making a linux boot diskette:
>
> Boot 2-floppy BL3
>
> Copy my kernel image (call it zimage) to a /boot directory that I made in
> both linux partitions (hda2 and hda3)
>
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /fd
> mke2fs /fd   (one book said to make a minix file system instead of ext2)
You need to give /dev/fd0 instead of mount point for such low level
operations like mke2fs... I.e., it doesn't operate with filesystem,
commands like dd and mksomefs interface directly with the device.

> A google search on 'lilo' and 'device 0x0100' informs me that I am trying
> to install lilo to a ramdisk.  Why is this if boot=/dev/fd0?
> It says to 'lilo -r /mnt'.
> Do I 'lilo -r /fd'
Excerpt from lilo man page:
      -r root-directory  Before doing anything else, do a chroot to
the indicated directory. The  newroot  directory  must  contain a /dev
directory, and may need a /boot directory. It may also need an
/etc/lilo.conf file.

I am not sure whether you need this option, but if you do, the boot
diskette has to have /dev in order for this option to work

> Another site suggested chrooting but I can't chroot to the boot diskette.
> Sindi
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