[pocket-linux] lilo error

[joseph mpora]

That seemed to fix the problem!

Still puzzles me why Lilo gave that error in the first place but I guess 
it doesn't matter now.

Thanks Joseph

Dave Henderson wrote:

> I had that same problem.  I think I found a work around to it.    Try 
> the following steps:
> 
>  
> 
> - mount the floppy
> 
> - make any changes to the floppy (ie lilo.conf, etc)
> 
> - umount the floppy
> 
> - sync
> 
> - mount the floppy using the full context of the mount command
> 
>      (mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy)
> 
> - run the lilo command
> 
> - umount the drive
> 
> - sync
> 
>  
> 
> this should work.
> 
>  
> 
> Dave Henderson
> 
> 
> 
> Joseph Mpora <klashniv@risk.sc.ug> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     I successfully setup a linux machine(redhat 6.1) under vmware.
> 
>     Compiled the kernel successfully
> 
>     when I tried to do /sbin/lilo -r /mnt/floppy
> 
>     open /dev/fd0 : permission denied
> 
>     am logged in as root, mount shows
> 
>     /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> 
>     What is wrong, can anyone troubleshoot?
> 
>     Joseph
> 
> 
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