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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

> 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.
I presume I did this correctly but typed it up wrong.
mke2fs /dev/fd0 then mount /dev/fd0 /fd.
I have an ext2 floppy disk.


> > 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'
This did not work at all, it stopped even finding lilo.conf.


> 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 chrooted to the ext2 directory after copying over /etc/lilo.conf (and I 
also copied boot.b and chain.b to /boot - or maybe lilo copied them from 
/fd, I lost track.  Lilo put a map into /boot on ext2.

 >
> 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.

Chrooting to ext2 BL3 seems to have worked.

> > Sindi