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- From: c-amb@math.utah.edu (Mark B. Alston)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: lilo problems
- Message-ID: <C-AMB.92Sep4101434@solitude.math.utah.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:14:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: solitude.C-AMB.92Sep4101434
- References: <1992Sep4.094349.17604@inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: news@math.utah.edu
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
- Lines: 45
- In-Reply-To: bob@cheetah.inmos.co.uk's message of Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09: 43:49 GMT
-
- In article <1992Sep4.094349.17604@inmos.co.uk> bob@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Bob Green) writes:
- Hope this hasn't been asked before. I've looked in the README supplied
- with lilo.4 and also in the extra README supplied by mcc. I'm trying
- to make a bootable floppy before I wreck my hard disk ;-) However I
- invoke lilo I get the following message:
-
- Hole found in map file (zero sector)
-
- What does this mean ? Am I doing something stupid ?
-
- No, you are doing everything as expected. It's just that you need this patch for lilo to work correctly with 0.97p2.
-
- ------------------ cut here ---------------------------------------
-
- *** geometry.orig Mon Aug 24 21:53:28 1992
- --- geometry.c Mon Aug 24 21:53:31 1992
- ***************
- *** 165,170 ****
- --- 165,171 ----
- die("Incompatible block size: %d\n",st.st_blksize);
- geo->spb = st.st_blksize/SECTOR_SIZE;
- }
- + geo->spb = 2;
- return geo->fd;
- }
-
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- After applying this patch, to the lilo source, everything will work
- fine. One thing to remember. You are supposed to reinstall lilo
- everytime you compile a new image. The install shell script works
- great for this,
-
-
- Have fun!
- --
- --------------------------------------------------------
- Mark Alston
- c-amb@math.utah.edu
-
- "Never knew a decent man who liked mathematics."
- - Bonnie Abbzug-Sarvis
- Hayduke Lives!
- ---------------------------------------------------------
-