On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:24:28PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: :Hi, : :I can't seem to get lilo to cooperate in installing the boot block on :a floppy: : :[EMAIL PROTECTED] deb-boot]# lilo -v -C bdlilo.conf -r /floppy/ :LILO version 21.5-1 beta, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger :'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman : :Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0 :Fatal: open /dev/fd0: Permission denied
/floppy was mounted "nodev" (the default when "user is specified in fstab) Since lilo -r chroots to /floppy the device file /floppy/dev/fd0 was being referenced. Mounting as root with "mount -o dev" solves this -Me
