Re: RH6 and lilo - kernel too big

Cory Watson (gphat@cafes.net)
Sun, 30 May 1999 01:21:57 -0500


I have run across this problem twice. The first time around I fiddled with
bzImage, zImage, zlilo, and bzlilo till I was bluein the face. I renamed
and renamed, thinking it was possibly a naming problem for some odd reason.
Somehow I got it to work, but when it happened again yesterday (freshly
installed RH6) I couldn't recall how I had fixed it. I retried all the
previous steps, and nothing worked. So I walked to the fridge, got a drink,
came back and typed lilo, and it worked.

Im not sure what the problem is, but Ill recompile my kernel in a bit and
see if I can duplicate it and find a solution.

At 10:18 AM 5/29/99 -0500, 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.
>
>-- Dave
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