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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