[ltp] usb floppy on TP R30 & boot using lilo floppy

[Giuseppe Leto]

Hi all,
I have been trying for a while to make a boot floppy for my TP R30.
The driver is an usb one and is correctely see from linux mandrake 8.1
when booting from hda.
I have done all the staff in the linux boot diskette howto to prepare
the boot lilo diskette.
(say:
mke2fs -N 24 -m 0 /dev/sda 1078
mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
rm -rf /mnt/floppy/lost+found/
cd /mnt/floppy
mkdir {boot,dev}
cp -R /dev/{null,sda} /mnt/floppy/dev
cp /boot/boot.b /mnt/floppy/boot
cp lilobd/bdlilo.conf /mnt/floppy/
cp /boot/it-latin1.klt /mnt/floppy/boot/
cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/floppy/)

When I try to install lilo on the boot sector of the floppy (lilo -v -C
bdlilo.conf -r /mnt/floppy)
I got the following:
Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Fatal: open /dev/sda: No such file or directory

What does it mean, is it possible to find a way out?
Thank you

G.

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Here it is the bdlilo.conf:

boot=/dev/sda
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
#read-write
read-only
backup=/dev/null
compact
#keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt    ###us.klt
prompt
#nowarn
timeout=50
#message=/boot/message
#menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
# disk=/dev/sda   #an attempt already made
#     bios=0x80
# disk=/dev/hda
#    bios=0x81
image=vmlinuz
   label=Bootdisk
   root=/dev/sda