[SOLVED] Re: LILO based bootfloppy

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:24:28PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I can't seem to get lilo to cooperate in installing the boot block on
:a floppy:
:
:[root@spoon deb-boot]# lilo -v -C bdlilo.conf -r /floppy/
:LILO version 21.5-1 beta, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
:'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
:
:Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0
:Fatal: open /dev/fd0: Permission denied

/floppy was mounted "nodev" (the default when "user is specified in
fstab)

Since lilo -r chroots to /floppy the device file /floppy/dev/fd0 was
being referenced.

Mounting as root with "mount -o dev" solves this

-Me