Re: Booting from compact flash (a question of LILO)

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From: Anders Larsen
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:29

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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:26:13 +0200, "Religious Sect"
<dontspamthe.templeofcaring@optushome.com.au> wrote:

> LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 
> Caching device /dev/hda (0x0300)
[snip]
> Caching device /dev/hdb (0x0340)
[snip]
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc
> open /dev/hdc: Permission denied
> 
> It is the last line that is the killer (yes I'm logged in as root)

Since LILO didn't tell anything about any /dev/hdc* above, my
guess is that you need to create /dev/hdc on the flash disk, as in

# mknod -m 600 /mnt/flash/dev/hdc b 22 0

HTH
cheers
  Anders
-- 
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
 In practice there is."  - Yogi Berra

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From: "Anders Larsen" <a.larsen@identecsolutions.de>
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Subject: Re: Booting from compact flash (a question of LILO)
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