Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 23:22:24 -0500 | From | Peter Leif Rasmussen <> | Subject | Linux-2.1.22 or lilo? |
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I have the habit to use "make bzImage" when I compile new kernels, and with the newest I encountered a problem with that, i.e. linux-2.1.22. I don't know if the problem is actually lilo specific, I use version 19, but here it goes:
When compiling the kernel and after that running lilo to alter the MBR to enable me to use the new kernel, when I reboot I get a funny error-message if the kernel image came from doing "make bzImage", but not if I used "make zImage" (apparently, because that is the kernel I am using just now ;)
It says something like: Less than 4MB memory --- system halted
And after that I have to reset the machine as a Ctrl-Alt-Del wont reboote it.
If I have done completely the same compile, but using "make zImage" instead, I encounter no problems.
The reason I belive it might actually be lilo specific is that even if I put in "mem=40MB" (because that is the RAM I have on the system) it dosn't seem to use it. I am also not able to see any messages about the kernel having read that message, compared to when I use other options like "hdd=cdrom" or "ide0=autotune" that I can see during boot as "ide_setup: hdd=cdrom" and "ide_setup: ide0=autotune".
I can't see that the option "mem=XXMB" (where XX is the actual amount of memory on the system) is documented anywhere, but I have seen several postings noting this, especially with regard to when RAM is larger than 64MB.
I have not been able to find what could be wrong, but would as a good minimum- Linux citizen like to report the problems I do encounter :-)
Thank you very much,
Peter
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