Re: help! lilo --> Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big

[Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>]

Hello abory,

Thursday, September 12, 2002, 7:19:34 PM, you wrote:
> sepherluet:/boot# lilo
> Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big

> -----------------------
> LILO version 22.3.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2002 John Coffman
> Released 11-Jul-2002 and compiled at 23:34:39 on Aug  3 2002.

> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Using MENU secondary loader
> Calling map_insert_data

> Boot image: /vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-scsi-advansys
> Fatal: Kernel /vmlinuz is too big

This means you have a big zImage kernel.
Try recompiling kernel using
# make bzImage
instead of 'make zImage' or 'make zlilo'

> ------------------------
>  665509 Jun 12 20:40 vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci
> 1569269 Sep 12 16:52 vmlinuz-2.4.19-scsi-advansys

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Best regards,
 Aigars                            mailto:aigarius@debian.org