Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> writes:

> I have my own system build scripts and somewhere in the
> last two weeks 'something' changed. When I rsync my
> master onto a target system I can't lilo it:
> 
> 	Fatal: Empty map section
> 
> Now, the error messages is true. /boot/map is not there
> now, neither are any of the boot.* files. I noticed those
> in particular were in the woody lilo package but are not
> in that of sid or sarge.
> 
> The lilo.conf in question has not changed; therefore
> something in the packages that debootstrap and pbuilder
> bring in must have changed. Who is responsible for
> installing /boot/map?

Isn't that created when you run lilo?

MfG
        Goswin