Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 May 1999 16:21:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael B. Trausch" <> | Subject | Re: RH6 and lilo - kernel too big |
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On Sat, 29 May 1999, Dave Helton wrote: > > Alan, Have tried bzImage and come up with a kernel size of 471K. Made the > necessary entries in lilo.conf and it still says 'kernel to big'. > > Have pared down the kernel to just the basics, most everything is compiled > as modules. Using ram disk/initrd for scsi stuff and ext2 in the > kernel itself, thats it! > > This is just weird. I had this problem with 5.2 some time back and don't > remember what the fix was. > > I see that the stock 2.2.5-15 kernel is 617K and lilo doesn't complain > about it. Would a previous version of lilo fix this or is that pointless. >
I have a slightly different problem myself -- LILO won't allow _ANY_ 2.2.x kernel other than 2.2.5-15 to boot. 2.3.x works, but any 2.2.x other than Red Hat's doesn't.
I think that I'm going to upgrade the LILO package, as well any others that mess with that stuff.
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