[Techtalk] redhat partitionless boot

[Miller, Hoff]

Thank you, I hadn't tried to use the -v to save the file, but the
same error message (device x00700) occurs. I believe this is related
to the loopback device, used for the "patitionless" installation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor Daly [mailto:conor.daly at oceanfree.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 7:36 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.simegen.com
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] redhat partitionless boot
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:20:05PM -0400 or so it is rumoured 
> hereabouts, 
> Miller, Hoff thought:
> > Thank you for your quick response.
> > 
> > I followed the instructions, but when I run lilo, it complains:
> > Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0700
> > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:12:39AM -0400, Miller, Hoff wrote:
> > > > When it boots from floppy, it looks like it's using lilo but it
> > > > must be from lilo on the floppy, so a question becomes how to
> > > > reconfigure the floppy's lilo.
> > > 
> > > The LILO mini-HOWTO has directions for making a floppy with 
> > > LILO on it.
> > > See the entire HOWTO at
> > >   http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html
> > > and the specific section about floppies at
> > >   http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO-7.html 
> > > 
> > > You would of course substitute the lilo configuration of 
> your choice
> > > for the HOWTO's lilo.flop.  And if I was doing this I'd 
> keep the old
> > > boot floppy around, since I'm sure I'd mess up the first time :)
> 
> You should find your lilo configuration in /etc/lilo.conf  That will
> probably have a line either
> 
> prompt
> timeout=100
> 
> or
> 
> delay=100
> 
> Remove any of those lines, insert a fresh floppy and do a 'lilo -v' to
> install it.  Make sure first that the file contains the line 
> 
> boot=/dev/fd0
> 
> so that it writes to the floppy.  The useful thing about your 
> lilo.conf is
> that it *should* have the info required for the partitionless 
> setup which
> is probably what the "don't know how to handle" error is about.
> 
> Conor
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