'map' line in /etc/lilo.conf gives me errors!

[z_inc]

Hello,
It seems that whatever I put into the map line in my lilo.conf file, I get Fatal errors. Can anyone help me out with this?
I tried:
map = /boot/System.map
map = /boot/map
map = "/boot/map"
map = "/boot/System.map"

Adding the quotes seems to have reduced the errors I was having before, but I am still getting the following error...
Fatal: creat /boot/System.map~: Read-only file system

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, z
(won't be able to check back until this evg.)

[robdavies]

Oh man, you do not want to set that!!

See the lilo map file, is the one it uses internally to record the block numbers of kernel and initrd, to load at boot time using BIOS calls. The Linux System.map is actually kernel symbol information, and is only needed for debugging purposes IIRC by genksyms.

So remove your map= lines completely and let lilo use it's default /boot/map. You can also get map file related problems if lba32 is not supported, and your /boot partition lies (even partly) outside the first 1024 cylinders on disk. See lilo.conf(5) for details.