Hello SuSE folkz, Today I've killed one more NT box in our Eng. Dept. by installing SuSE7.0 Linux on it and putting NT in a condition of unreal guest OS through Vmware. I love to do this >:-) One curious engineer the owner of this box accidentally wiped off /boot/map file. So, now after Kernel compilation when executing 'lilo' it responds with: ' Empty map section'. The box became bootable with boot floppy only. Could somebody tell me please how to restore /boot/map file to resemble normal Linux booting process. Thank you in advance. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 21:57, you wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, Today I've killed one more NT box in our Eng. Dept. by installing SuSE7.0 Linux on it and putting NT in a condition of unreal guest OS through Vmware. I love to do this >:-) One curious engineer the owner of this box accidentally wiped off /boot/map file. So, now after Kernel compilation when executing 'lilo' it responds with: ' Empty map section'. The box became bootable with boot floppy only. Could somebody tell me please how to restore /boot/map file to resemble normal Linux booting process. Thank you in advance. Alex
Page 133 of Running Linux, 3rd Edition, says that /boot/map is created when Lilo is run the first time. I don't know if simply running Lilo again after you've gained access by booting from a floppy will work, but maybe copying the 'map' file from the floppy to /boot/map may work. JLK
Hello, Thank you for your response. Running Lilo again didn't solve this problem. I tried to run Yast to redo LILO configuration and I was getting the same message: ' Empty map section' in all cases. Thanks. Alex On Wednesday 14 March 2001 20:26, Jerry Kreps wrote:
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 21:57, you wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, Today I've killed one more NT box in our Eng. Dept. by installing SuSE7.0 Linux on it and putting NT in a condition of unreal guest OS through Vmware. I love to do this >:-) One curious engineer the owner of this box accidentally wiped off /boot/map file. So, now after Kernel compilation when executing 'lilo' it responds with: ' Empty map section'. The box became bootable with boot floppy only. Could somebody tell me please how to restore /boot/map file to resemble normal Linux booting process. Thank you in advance. Alex
Page 133 of Running Linux, 3rd Edition, says that /boot/map is created when Lilo is run the first time. I don't know if simply running Lilo again after you've gained access by booting from a floppy will work, but maybe copying the 'map' file from the floppy to /boot/map may work. JLK
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Do you have a line: map=/boot/map in /etc/lilo.conf? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns jkarns@csd.net On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Alex Daniloff said:
Hello SuSE folkz, Today I've killed one more NT box in our Eng. Dept. by installing SuSE7.0 Linux on it and putting NT in a condition of unreal guest OS through Vmware. I love to do this >:-) One curious engineer the owner of this box accidentally wiped off /boot/map file. So, now after Kernel compilation when executing 'lilo' it responds with: ' Empty map section'. The box became bootable with boot floppy only. Could somebody tell me please how to restore /boot/map file to resemble normal Linux booting process. Thank you in advance. Alex
Hello SuSE folkz, Thanks to everybody who send me suggestions on how to fix map file. The problem was that in /etc/lilo.conf there is a line: message=/boot/message So, that moron wiped off /boot/message and /boot/map files alltogether. I soon as I created /boot/message file (putted in there a couple of good words in his address) and executed lilo everything returned back to normal. Thanks. Alex On Thursday 15 March 2001 07:35, John Karns wrote:
Do you have a line:
map=/boot/map
in /etc/lilo.conf?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns jkarns@csd.net
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Alex Daniloff said:
Hello SuSE folkz, Today I've killed one more NT box in our Eng. Dept. by installing SuSE7.0 Linux on it and putting NT in a condition of unreal guest OS through Vmware. I love to do this >:-) One curious engineer the owner of this box accidentally wiped off /boot/map file. So, now after Kernel compilation when executing 'lilo' it responds with: ' Empty map section'. The box became bootable with boot floppy only. Could somebody tell me please how to restore /boot/map file to resemble normal Linux booting process. Thank you in advance. Alex
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