Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote on 2010-07-05 15:23: > > I've caught up on all of this now. I'm not sure I quite understand > the position of the current lilo maintainers. In > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00769.html > William writes: > > it has pretty much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the > line past where lilo can reliably determine the payload size. Because I had not understand this statement in the pointed email I made some tests and searched through the source code. Yesterday I have made my last test on an amd64 architecture with the recent kernel and a special made initrd (with over 1000 large kernel modules): kernel size = 2,4 MByte initrd size = 25,0 MByte and the lilo option 'large-memory'. Result of this test with lilo: This kernel+initrd is installable and bootable without problems! My results of these work: Lilo don't have any problems with the kernel + initrd size. If the 'large-memory' option is set this will be done without warnings and if this option is not set it will be done correctly but with warnings! Have a nice day, Joachim (Germany)
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