Probably the blind leading the blind, but here goes ... > is there any way of installing Lilo from the ram disk created by > tomsrtbt, to the hardisk of the computer? When i try it says it can't > be done from a ram disk. No, because the ram disk will not be there when you invoke a lilo boot (when the kernel ceases functioning, ram disks are no longer accessible even though the content may survive in memory). > > I tried to install it from nfs filesystem as well; with the -r option > and with chroot and the complete version of lilo, with similar results. You cannot lilo off a remote file system because lilo does not have the facilities to read a remote file system.
A kernel and a file system of some sort (partition, compressed etc) has to reside on media (eg HD, floppy, CD-ROM) that can be read by lilo (using the primitive disk read routines in the BIOS). The lilo.conf file needs to point to the kernel, file system as well as pass through other parameters, and the lilo program when run resolves the actual sector number of the kernel, etc as lilo boot code cannot resolve file names to locations.
