Installing LILO on floppy

[Kinjal Sonpal]

Hi ppl !

I have Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 installed on a dual boot m/c with Win98 occupying hda1 & hda2 of 10.2 gb hdd.. The linux is installed on hda5 ..
While installing Linux the Lizard util din't install LiLO on the floppy as requested ..
As of now i'm using LoadLin to boot into the system ..
When tried to install lilo on the floppy a surprising error message popped up ..
It cried for the root partition going out of 1024 cylinder range ..
What am I supposed to do now ?
I dont wanna install lilo on MBR ..

Thanks for reading this post ..
:confused:

[bdl]

Ok. So you want to boot via floppy, correct? If so, just creating a floppy with the kernel image is a good way to boot, no LILO to fool with.

Stick in a floppy.

prompt# dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0

...where /vmlinuz is your actual kernel image. It's most likely something like /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19 or similar. Then perform an 'rdev' on the newly create floppy to match up with your root filesystem. So for example if you mount '/' on /dev/hda5 then

prompt# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda5

...reboot.

Otherwise, if you're certain you want to install LILO to the floppy, you might try this:

prompt# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
prompt# /sbin/lilo -v -r /mnt -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf

...of course this depends on the floppy you've created having an etc/lilo.conf file that actually works...mount the floppy first and verify its contents beforehand. Give it a shot.

[edited]

[ 14 June 2001: Message edited by: bdl ]

[Kinjal Sonpal]

Hi bdl,

Thanx for the reply .. Exactly that's what I wanted !! I wud prefer the first method .. BTW can U tell me why was the kinda error that i got while installing LILO using Lizard ..I'm asking just for the knowledge .. Is it somewhat related to the LILO's inability to boot a partition which is beyond 1024 cylinder range ?

Thnx again for reply,
:)

[bdg1983]

I believe 2.3 uses a version of Lilo that doesn't support booting past the 1024 cylinder. Have you tried Caldera's knowledgebase (http://support.calderasystems.com/caldera) as you may find some help there?