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lilo 23.2: Fatal: trying to map files from unnamed device 0x001

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Hi: I have browsed the web for that message but could not find anything useful for my case. Having got this message I reduced lilo.conf to a minimum:

Code:

$ cat /etc/lilo.conf

lba32

boot=/dev/sda

$

And I still got the same message. The machine has only one hard disk with three primary partitions and one extended partition, the hard disk being parallel ATA (IDE). I first used lilo 22.8 but got, with a complete lilo.conf, "Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 muximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader". Then I saw a post where the author of lilo said he had taken notice of that message and that the poster would have to wait until lilo 23.2 was out, which prompted me to run 23.2, only to get the message in this post title. What can possibly be the cause?

 

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