Re: [LinuxBIOS] question about filo fail

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:08:47PM +0800, AlexHuang wrote:
> I used FILO to build a filo.elf, and see the message "Mounted
> ext2fs". But it fails on next step, the error message is "File not
> found". I am sure that my hard drive has file "/boot/
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667".

[..]
> file_open: dev=hda1, path=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
> devopen: Partition 1 start 63 length 208782

hda1 is about 100MB. It's probably not the root partition in your
system. If hda1 is mounted on /boot then the correct path in FILO
is hda1:/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667

By the way, please upgrade your kernel. 2.6.9 is very old and had
a lot of problems.

//Peter