On Don, 04 Jan 2001, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I have a PC with two hard drives (one for DOS, one for Windows 95). Now
>I would like to install LILO.
>I boot up the PC using tomsrtbt 1.7.185, then mount the floppy to /mnt,
>create /mnt/etc/lilo.conf, copy the boot.b file to /mnt/boot/boot.b and
>start lilo -r /mnt.
with the -r option you make a chroot to mnt.
Now lilo wants to read also the devicefile at /mnt/dev/hda
you need at least a /mnt/dev/hda :
mkdir /mnt/dev
mknod /mnt/dev/hda b 3 0
if you want boot lilo from hda you also need room on a partition in the first
1024 tracks of hda for the lilo bootdata (for this is the boot directory)
There lilo stotes the mapfile ....
If you dont plan to install linux on a harddisk then the dos or
windowspartition would work. But defrag kills then lilo.
or
If you have a linuxpartition use the -r option to use this linuxpartition.
>This leads to "Can't open /dev/hda". Hm. I cannot copy /dev/hda to
>/mnt/dev/hda (not enough space).
>
>Is there any solution for my problem?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Michael Svoboda
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