[Techtalk] fatal:empty map section

[Judy Hayes]

Yeah you are right!  I came into work today and that was the problem.... thank you ! ~Judy~

--- Almut Behrens <almut_behrens at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:12:04PM -0700, Judy Hayes wrote:
>>
>> NE one familer with this? Running lilo, edited lilo.conf to use new
>> kernel exe lilo causes error fatal:empty map section.  NE suggestions? 
>
>You get this error message if anything that lilo tries to map into the
>mapfile (typically /boot/map) results in a section size of zero sectors.
>
>One of the possible causes for this is having any files referenced in
>lilo.conf which do exist but have a size of zero.  I once ran into the
>same problem with a 0-byte welcome message file (/boot/message)...
>
>So, check for any zero-size files (most probably in /boot) -- or simply
>run lilo in verbose mode, e.g.
>
>  lilo -t -v -v -v -v -v    (newer versions also take "-v 5" instead)
>
>for maximum verbosity and test-only mode.  Then, meditate on the last
>message you see before lilo aborts -- or post it here :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>- Almut
>
>
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