Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Stephen Powell put forth on 9/24/2010 4:06 PM:
> Current stock Debian kernels for the
> amd64 architecture are right on the ragged edge of being too
> large for lilo to load below the 16M line

And the bulk of these ~16MB stock kernels is the initrd, correct?  Wow
those are huge.  I'm so glad I roll my own, from kernel.org source, and
forgo the "kitchen sink" initrd setups of the stock kernels.

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.5M Jul  9 09:29 vmlinuz-2.6.34.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 490K Jul  9 09:29 System.map-2.6.34.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  29K Jul  9 09:29 config-2.6.34.1

At my pace of kernel file growth, I won't hit the lilo 22.8 16MB limit
for a few decades. :)

Correct me if I'm wrong Stephen, but isn't this 16MB ceiling more of a
block device controller BIOS limitation than a lilo limitation?

-- 
Stan