[1006] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 4.0 Fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Milam, Charles R. 1LT CAP)
Fri Oct 25 18:45:28 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:25:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Milam, Charles R. 1LT CAP" <cmilam@cap.af.mil>
To: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
cc: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610232313.TAA18780@redhat.com>
ReSent-From: "Milam, Charles R. 1LT CAP" <cmilam@cap.af.mil>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Donnie Barnes wrote:
> >Ok, if I am going to have to use a floppy to boot, can I pass boot-time
> >paramenters (mem="xxx", etc.) to a kernel compiled on a floppy via a "make
> >zdisk?"
>
> No. 'make zdisk' doesn't use lilo. you'd need to put a filesystem
> on the floppy, then a kernel and lilo.conf for it. Then run
> something like 'lilo -r /mnt/floppy' to lilo it.
Hmm. Ok, I've got a filesystem on the floppy, and a kernel on it, like
so:
[root@wilbur floppy]# ls -alg /mnt/floppy
total 456
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 25 13:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Oct 24 06:31 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Oct 25 13:20 lilo.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 25 12:37 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 448114 Oct 25 12:39 vmlinuz
[root@wilbur floppy]#
Here's the lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd
read-only
append = "mem=65536k"
Now, here's the wierd part:
[root@wilbur floppy]# /sbin/lilo -r /mnt/floppy -C ./lilo.conf
open /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
[root@wilbur floppy]#
Ideas?
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1LT Chuck Milam, CAP (334) 953-4271
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USAF Auxiliary-CAP National Headquarters cmilam@cap.af.mil
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