LILO: Map segment is too big.

[John Marter <jmarter@fastenal.com>]

Hi,
I'm looking for some advice about digging myself out of
a hole a got into.

After upgrading to Debian 2.0 beta and seemingly fixing the
problems that popped up (maybe I'll need to explain some of
that later),  I rebooted and got stuck at the LI of the
LILO prompt.

I used the rescue disk that came with the system (from
VA Research with Debian pre-loaded).  Two things stuck out
at me.

1. chroot is not one of the commands on the rescue disk.
I haven't had to do a rescue for several years, but the other
time I started by doing a chroot to my usual disk partition.
Is it normal to do rescues without chroot?

2. When I try to use any of the commands that are on the
harddisk, I get 'file not found'.  For example if I type
/mnt/bin/bash

The rescue disk has LILO v17.  I figured out that I could do

lilo -r /mnt

to chroot before it does its stuff.  When I do that, I get the
title error message: "Map segment is too big."
I'm not sure what that means or if it suggests a course of 
action.

I realize that I haven't provided a lot of details about my
system. I'll do what I can to get the pieces I need.  I have
been working from memory because I am typing this up at
work.  But I'm in no hurry, and I'll take the time I need to
learn what I need to know.  If nothing else I can always do
a full re-install.

I'll head home in about an hour and get the contents of 
/etc/lilo.conf and perhaps an ls -l of the /boot directory.
Is there some other info that would be helpful?

Thanks

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John Marter           (jmarter@fastenal.com)         ext. 8014


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