Re: Have there been changes in the lilo package?

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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

I'd have thought so... but I'm getting the message
from lilo. There is also no /boot/boot.b. I tried 
commenting out both the install= and map= lines
to no effect. I have a message= line, but the
file it points to is my own, does exist and is
a non-zero length simple ascii file that I have 
not changed in several years.

I see nothing in the lilo changefile so far that
rings any alarm bells. I've basically no idea
what suddenly broke in my build sequence.

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