Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: lilo limitations on kernels | Date | 7 Sep 1999 07:11:17 GMT |
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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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