Problem installing LILO

fred anger [email protected]
Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:44:54 -0700 (MST)


Never mind!  I did something stupid at some point and didn't have the
filesystem anymore...sorry for wasting time...

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, fred anger wrote:

> Hi again.  I'm trying to build a system from PWL onto the hard drive of an
> "embedded" device.  The hard drive is a 2G Hitachi laptop hard drive,
> which I've removed from the embedded device and plugged into my
> development PC's IDE bus as /dev/hdd.  I built the filesystem and
> "flashed" it to the drive ok (the disk is split into 2 partitions, with
> the second partition being the one to be booted), but when I try to
> install LILO, I get an error from mkBootDevice saying: "invalid Boot
> Directory /mnt/boot".  Here are my project.defaults:
> 
> export prjMnt="mnt"                    # Prompt: Project Mount Point
> export prjCustomSrc="/usr/local/src"   # Prompt: Project Custom Source
> File pathexport bootLabel="pwlinuz"             # Prompt: LILO Boot Label
> 
> #   Initial defaults from flash disk (IDE type) parameters
> 
> export deviceType="FLASH"              # Prompt: Device Type (DOC FLOPPY
> CDROM FLASH)
> export deviceName="Flash Disk"         # Prompt: Device Name
> export liloCustom="linear"             # Prompt: LILO Custom Command
> export liloImageCustom=""              # Prompt: LILO Image Custom Command
> 
> export deviceMnt="/mnt"   # Prompt: Device Mount Point
> export deviceLoc="/dev/hdd"   # Prompt: Device Type Node (/dev/xxx)
> export devicePartition="2"   # Prompt: Device Type Partition
> export bootKernel="/boot/bzImage"   # Prompt: Boot Image Path/name
> export bootDevice="/dev/hda2"   # Prompt: Boot Location
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> -fa
> 
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