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 -------------------------------------------------------------- John Marter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ext. 8014 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null