Are you sure you copied the correct bzImage file from
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot to /boot? Sounds like you may have brought
over the wrong file.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I�m running Linux Mdk 6.1 on a Pentium 166 MMX with 128 Mb of RAM and a IDE
> HD of 3,2 Gb for linux (another 2Gb IDE disk contains a DOS partition).
> I�ve recompiled Linux kernel several times with other distributions. After
> recompiling it with modules support in my Mandrake system (I�ve tried both
> "make zImage" and "make bzImage"), I get a kernel a bit smaller than the
> one installed by default (480k more or less) which is normal, but when I
> try to update the MBR with lilo (at the prompt or via Klilo), it "usually"
> gives me the following message: "kernel is too big" and I cannot update the
> boot list (which by now contains two options: old linux kernel and dos).
> I said "usually" becuase once lilo could update the boot list, but when i
> choosed the new kernel to boot (at the beginnig of the boot sequence, i.e.
> lilo prompt), the system rebooted again (and again if i had choosed the
> same option).
> Does anybody has had the same problem? Any idea about the reason why lilo
> doesn�t work?
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