🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:16:07 +0200, "Religious Sect"
<dontspamthe.templeofcaring@optushome.com.au> wrote:

> I'm trying to boot from a compact flash card which is connected to my
> standard IDE controller (with a IDE to CF converter).  But I'm not
> having much luck.
> 
> I currently boot from a standard harddrive (hda).  Meanwhile the CF
> card is connected as hdc.  Everything works sweet.  I can mount hdc1
> and hdc2 and everyone is happy.
> 
> So I run:
> lilo -C lilo.flash
> cp /boot/* /mnt/flash/boot/

Don't do that!
lilo writes absolute disk addresses to the map file; these would
refer to /dev/hda in your case (since that's where /boot is located).

Step 1: cp -pv /boot/* /mnt/flash/boot/

Step 2: lilo -C lilo.flash -r /mnt/flash/

This will tell lilo to locate the boot-image on /mnt/flash/boot/
and write the map to /mnt/flash/boot/map
(you might have to copy lilo.flash to /mnt/flash/etc/lilo.flash
 to get the above command to work)

> lilo.flash:
> --------------------------------
> boot=/dev/hdc
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc2
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18
> --------------------------------
> 
> Which should install MBR and booting stuff on the CF card.

Well, when you boot from CF, I guess your CF will be /dev/hda,
so "root=/dev/hda2" might do wonders, too.
("boot=/dev/hdc" tells lilo where to *write* the boot info,
 so don't change that).

HTH
cheers
  Anders
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