RE: LILO: Map segment is too big.
Thanks for all the replies. The root disk below was just what I needed.
It had a more modern LILO on it (version 20 instead of 17). With that
I could successfully get my disk bootable again, and everything
else worked fine.
Thanks
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John Marter (jmarter@fastenal.com) ext. 8014
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sjc@delphi.com [SMTP:sjc@delphi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 6:37 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: LILO: Map segment is too big.
>
> On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 05:16:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, John Marter wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Well, if your system is good enough too boot off I usually just tell
>
> > linux that it's Root is /dev/hda1 (or whatever) and have it boot off
> the
> > harddisk with the good kernel from the floppy, tell it that init is
> > /bin/sh and you'll get a nice shell prompt on a ro system.
>
> Many times when I screw my system up...I find I have to re-lilo it
> sldo...for a rescue disk which probably has chroot (I love chroot
> myself)
> check out "Tom's Unix on a Floppy" or as a co-worker of mine
> labels his copy "More Magic"
> below is the lsm from the package
> -Steve
>
> Begin3
> Title: tomsrtbt
> Version: 1.1.4.47
> Entered-date: 05APR98
> Description: "The most Linux on one (1,722K) floppy."
> 1722MB boot/root rescue disk with a lot of hardware and
> tools.
> Supports ide, scsi, tape, network adaptors, PCMCIA, much
> more.
> About 100 utility programs and tools for fixing and
> restoring.
> See 'ReadMe-Features' for the list of what's included.
> Not a
> script, just the diskette image packed up chock full of
> stuff.
> Also good as learn-unix-on-a-floppy as it has mostly
> what you
> expect- vi, emacs, awk, sed, sh, manpages- loaded on
> ramdisks.
> Keywords: rescue, recovery, emergency, floppy, tomsrtbt
> Author: tom@toms.net (Tom Oehser)
> Maintained-by: tom@toms.net (Tom Oehser)
> Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery
> 1722 kB tomsrtbt-1.1.4.47.tar.gz
> 1 kB tomsrtbt-1.1.4.47.lsm
> Alternate-site: ftp.clark.net/pub/toehser/rb
> 1722 kB tomsrtbt-current.tar.gz
> Copying-policy: GPL
> End
>
>
> --
> ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
> sjc@delphi.com **
> "All authority is quite degrading."
> -- Oscar Wilde << File: ATT03149.ATT >>
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