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[pd520 at york.ac.uk]

Hi Mikkel,

It finally works. the mk....
does not work. So I use cpio.

By the way, now I have a problem when I try to upgrade from FC4 to FC6 ! It 
starts OK, and then fails to transfer tohe file from de DVD to the Hard 
drive because it becomes dismounted !!! Regards
>> 
>> This is my init file:
>> 
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>> 
>> If I could find a tested file (including the lilo.conf), it would be
>> great.
>> 
>> Thank.
>> 
>This looks good. Now, are you loading the kernel from your internal
>hard drive, or have you chained to the copy on the USB drive? If you
>have chained to the USB drive, have you edited /etc/lilo.conf on the
>USB drive to change the root drive passed to the kernel from
>/dev/hda to /dev/sda? You also have to run lilo after the change.
>That complicates things a bit, because you have to either be able to
>boot the OS, or mount it properly, and use chroot to use the FC4
>environment. If you use the chroot method, you also have to change
>lilo.conf so that it is installing on the USB drive. I don't
>remember the exact syntax, but it is covered in the LILO man page.
>(It has been too many years sense I used LILO.) If you can not find
>it, let me know and I will dig it up.
>
>I believe we have eliminated the drivers as a problem, so the next
>thing to test is if you are passing the kernel the wrong drive. One
>difference between LILO and Grub is that you have to run the lilo
>command after making changes to the config file, while Grub will
>normally read the changes at boot.
>
>Mikkel
>