Hi Pixel,
If the devices are not equal ($device <> $rdevice) then lilo gets a device
busy attempting to write to the floppy (now, I'm using devfs and that may be
the difference.)
As long as the device lilo attempts to use is the same as the one mounted to
/mnt/mkbootdisk then lilo's happy (at least on my system!)
Thanks for the help...
Gio
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] mkbootdisk
> "Paul Giordano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Also - could you change the line "boot=$device" that's written to the
> > $MOUNTDIR/etc/lilo.conf to read "boot=$rdevice"? Otherwise you get a
device busy
> > condition using devfs - $device is /dev/fd0, $rdevice is /dev/fd0u1440.
>
> can you explain more?
>
> rdevice is /dev/fd0H1440, not fd0u1440.
>
> why would it work better with boot=/dev/fd0H1440 in lilo.conf?
>
>
> thanks, Pixel.
>
