Hello,

in order to understand the booting of Linux I did the following:


- formatting floppy with Linux filesystem
- create directory /dev on the floppy
- mknod /media/floppy/dev/fd0 b 2 0
- copy vmlinuz (Kernel) to floppy
- copy sash (staticly bounded shell) to floppy
- copy lilo.conf to floppy:
boot = /dev/fd0
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/fd0
- lilo -r /media/floppy -C lilo.conf

Now, I should get a floppy, from wich I can boot and get a simple shell, if
I enter init=/sash at the boot prompt.


But by invoking lilo I get:


Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Fatal: Can't put the boot sector on logical partition 0x0200


Why ?


Georg Gerber