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Re: RH4.0 Boot Disk - Problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Mon Oct 28 22:14:44 1996

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:10:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Pedro Soria-Rodriguez wrote:

> 	When I do this step (4), I get "map segment is too big"
> and if I boot from that disk afterwards, it doesnt find something and
> it halts the system.
> 	The kernel I was trying to put on the boot disk is smaller than
> the one that the disk came with.  I am using lilo 17, with RH 3.0.3.
> 	I dont know what to do about the map segment.... any ideas?
> Thanks.
> 

The first thing to do is replace the files in /boot on the floppy with
the ones from your system and see if that helps.

Erik

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