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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