> P.S. My new kernel now hangs on bootup on "Finding module
> dependencies".
> Any ideas?
Did you do a make modules and make modules_install following your
kernel build?
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Voelker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] weird lilo problem
>
>
> Thanks to all who suggested using bzImage. Lilo now installs the new
> kernel. Although, somehow the whole thing doesn't make sense
> to me. Why
> does lilo have no problem with the out-of-the-box kernel
> (570kB), but does
> complain that my custom kernel (425kB) compiled using zImage
> is too big?
> And why does compiling the same kernel using bzImage make lilo happy
> although the actual file size is reduced by a mere 8 bytes.
> Can somebody
> explain this to me?
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> P.S. My new kernel now hangs on bootup on "Finding module
> dependencies".
> Any ideas?
>
>
> -----
> Stefan Voelker My country is the world.
> Dept of Mech & Industr Engr My countrymen are
> all mankind.
> Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> W.L. Garisson
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have a weird problem with lilo. I just recently
> installed Mandrake 6.1.
> > > The install went smooth. No problems. After finishing
> the installation,
> > > I decided to build a custom kernel, since the one that
> comes with Mandrake
> > > supports a lot of things I don't need and consequently is
> fairly big at
> > > 570kB. So I built custom kernel which is about 425kB. I modified
> > > /etc/lilo.conf copied the new kernel and System.map into
> /boot and ran
> > > lilo. Lilo failed. The error message said something to
> the extend that
> > > my custom kernel was too big. Lilo does not complain
> about the original
> > > Mandrake kernel being too big! Which makes???? Has anyone else
> > > encountered this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > Try recompiling and make bzImage instead of zImage.
> > John
> >
>
