[pocket-linux] lilo error

[David Horton]

I've never used it, but my understanding of vmware is that it allows
your one physical PC or server to act like many virtual PC's / servers.
 It even goes as far as running the BIOS tests and other hardware-based
stuff.  Maybe Joseph can explain better since he is using it.

--Dave


> If vmware is installed in a base install of a debian distro, I would.
 I have tried searching for vmware in the filesystem and the info/man
pages, only to find nothing, so I guess I don't.  How would I go about
finding out if I do or not?  I just stumbled upon that problem while
going through your guide and kept trying things until I found a work
around.  Dave, you may want to include it in your guide as an "editor's
note".
>  
> Dave Henderson
> 
> 
> David Horton <dhorton@megsinet.net> wrote:
> 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 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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