Cannot install LILO on compact flash device

Sep 23, 2005 3 Replies

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tPedley 20 years ago

I am trying to install a embedded system. I have built and copied across to my CF card the built system based on 2.4 kernal and busybox. I have created a target lilo conf file on the CF as follows

boot = /dev/sda disk = /dev/sda bios=0x80 image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.29 root=/dev/sda1 append="root=/dev/hda1" label=linux read-only

I then try and load it using

lilo -r /mnt/cd -C /etc/target.lilo.conf

using LILO version 22.4.1

and I get the following error

Fatal: stat /dev/sda: No such file or directory

I have a /mnt/cf/dev/sda

on the system

Anyone any ideas what I am doing wrong?

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Helix 20 years ago

Has your board a CF IDE interface ? If yes use /dev/hdX

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tPedley 20 years ago

No, its connected via USB, but that should not be a problem since I can access it the disk OK.

Basically I have been following the best I can the O'Reilly Building Embedded Linux Systems book and have built my system and followed the Using LILO with Disk and Compact Flash Devices section. But have now come to a halt.

Any ideas anyone?

I can chroot onto the system, however it looks to me that it is looking for stat on on the chrooted system and busybox does not have that utility.

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tPedley 20 years ago

Ok, Fixed it. Basically I needed to create my sda device on the compact flash(and sda1)

created directory scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0

then in the lun0 directory

mknod -m 666 disc b 8 0 mknod -m 666 part1 b 8 1

then in the CF dev directory

ln -s scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc sda ln -s scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 sda1

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