Re: Booting LILO on CF - hung at "LI"

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KN,
What is your platform?
The procedure which I listed in my earlier mails assumes you have minimum root file system ready. If you have not,make one with busybox.


Cheers,
-Ravi


Choong KN wrote:
Hi all,

  I saw a thread on
(http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2003-07/msg00344.html)
about booting LILO from Compact Flash. I have tried
the method given (as below).
However, my platform showed me "LI". "LI" means
failure to execute 2nd stage boot loader. The thread
didn't mention how to solve the "LI" problem. Can
anyone help?

I'm using RedHat 7.1, lilo ver 21.4-4.
What is the meaning of this command? cp -dpR /home/<rootfs files>/* /mnt/hdc1
I have a list of user directories in /home, what is
<rootfs files>?
Thanks.


regards,
  KN


1.Check out whether your BIOS recognised flash disk.Generally it identifies as "hdc" on the linux host machine.I assume you have IDE adapter connected to your host machine with flash mounted to it. 2.Formated the flash with fdisk fdisk /dev/hdc (d,1) 3.Create a primary partition of type linux (n,p,enter,enter,t,1,83) 4.Make it bootable (a) 5.enable the changes (w) 6.check for the desired partition fdisk /dev/hdc (p) 7.mke2fs /dev/hdc1 8.mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 9. copy entire directory system (bin,boot,dev,etc,....) onto flash cp -dpR /home/<rootfs files>/* /mnt/hdc1 10.Edit the lilo

   The lilo needs to be modified that comes with
intoto linux kernel.

The new lilo looks like this:

boot=/dev/hdc
disk=/dev/hdc
    bios = 0x80
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
lba32
prompt
timeout=10
image=/boot/vmlinuz
         label=linux
         root=/dev/hda1
         read-only

11.Time to run lilo

     /mnt/hdc1/sbin/lilo -r /mnt/hdc1 -C etc/lilo.conf

12. A success shows
   Added linux *
13.Now umount /dev/hdc1
14.Boot the box with the flash and enjoy computing.






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