[pocket-linux] boot.b

[dkis]

Hi

i tried the command lilo -V and it display the version number as 22.5.7.2
I actually created a symbolic link of boot.b to the boot.0300 but it does 
not work. i guess something is missing.
So i look into the image ch2-bootdisk.image by using the loopback method.

/boot - boot.0200 boot.b map vmlinuz
/boot/dev - console fd0
/etc - lilo.conf
/lost+found
The file boot.0200 is 512 bytes and boot.b is 7964 bytes.

Hope that someone can help me to resolve it. i suspect the missing map file 
and boot.b are causing me to have the kernel panic error.

Deric


At 09:24 PM 3/8/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: peter robinson [mailto:Peter.Robinson at t-online.de]
> > Sent: Monday, March 8, 2004 10:41 PM
> > To: 'Support for Pocket Linux Guide'
> > Subject: Re: [pocket-linux] boot.b
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > i did face the same problem on my system mandrake 9.2, there is no boot.s
> > > to be copied only something like boot.0300
> > > not too sure abt this and the size is 512 bytes. Creating a symbolic link
> > > to boot.b didn't seem to resolve it.
> > >
> > > Deric
> > >
> > >
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> > On Saturday 06 March 2004 22:54, dkis wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had the same problem. I wound up copying the boot.b from another 
> computer.
> > Is it possible that your machine boots with grub rather than lilo? If 
> you do
> > not have a file called boot.b then there is no use in linking to any of 
> the
> > other files in the boot directory...
> >
> > Peter
> > :_)
> >
>
>I believe that newer versions of LILO do not use boot.b anymore although I 
>do not know which version this started with.  I think maybe it was 22.5, 
>but don't quote me on this.  If you do 'lilo --version' you can see your 
>version.  If it is higher than 22.5 you might not need boot.b.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>
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