[pocket-linux] lilo error

[David Horton]

Do you guys think this is some sort of error that only occurs with
vmware?  (Dave, are you using vmware?)  Or is it something else unrelated?

-Dave


> 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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