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SubjectRe: lilo limitations on kernels
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Followup to:  <19990907035658.A28720@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
By author: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> darragh.sherwin@minds.cs.may.ie wrote:
> > I have recently complied a new kernel for a router I am setting up but
> > the problem seems to be that the kernel is to large for lilo's liking
> > around 1.6MB
>
> Where and how does it fail ? I don't have any kernels huge enough to
> actually try booting such a monstrosity, but at least mapping files
> larger than 1MB should work fine with any recent version of LILO.
>

It's not LILO's liking that's the problem is my guess (you don't even
get a compiled bzImage, do you?); it's a buglet in the generation
code. Riley Williams is working on a patch.

-hpa

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