Re: Floppy boot

[nospam [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk]

> I'm struggling to get linux up and running on a computer and every time I
> try I get Lilo failing at the LI bit. I have found a tutorial on the net
> which says this is quite a common problem with some of the newer hard drives
> and recommends fixing it by inserting the line 'linear' into lilo.conf.
> Fine, but how do I get at lilo.conf on the hard disk if I am booting from a
> floppy? I tried to 'mount /dev/hda' as a first guess but the floppy linux
> said that it couldn't find it in fstab. Help!!!

Try using a complete mount command line. (BTW it is only possible to mount a
partition e.g. /dev/hda1 rather than /dev/hda when using an IDE hard disk)
mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /
Should work. (Damn it's a long time since I did that... automount :)
It is easier to boot from e.g. a RedHat boot disk and when the screen pops
up with a prompt at the bottom typing "vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1" or similar.

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