MIB,

I believe I heard to boot-strap itself, the (compressed) kernel still
has to fit in 640K, no?

If so (I could be wrong), and you haven't made a compressed kernel
(bzImage), you'll likely have to make some modules to cut down the size.

Karl



On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, The Man in Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> So I ran out to get myself a copy of 2.4, compiled my kernel (yay!) and
> then then i run LILO I get the following error;
> 
> [root@inter /boot]# lilo
> Added linux-vpn
> Added linux
> Fatal: Kernel /boot/2001jan15 is too big
> 
> in verbose mode it looks ilke this;
> 
> [root@inter /boot]# lilo -v
> LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
> 
> Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
> Merging with /boot/boot.b
> Mapping message file /boot/message
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-vpn
> Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> Added linux-vpn
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> Added linux
> Boot image: /boot/2001jan15
> Fatal: Kernel /boot/2001jan15 is too big
> 
> Too big?!?!  Huh?  Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Neil S. Tozier
> (AKA The Man in Black)
> 
> 
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