On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> a friend used the red hat embedded dev kit 1.0 to create a new
> kernel and a root filesystem. the root filesystem was placed in a
> small (40M) partition on /dev/hdb, and we're now trying to run lilo
> to register the new kernel.
>
> this kernel is a "zImage" (created by the dev kit), only 461K, so
> not overly large. but every attempt to run lilo generates the error
> message "Kernel too big."
I don't what could be the problem exactly.
But you try creating a bzImage instead of a zImage.
Then i think lilo won't complain anything.
>
> on the other hand, i dd'ed the kernel to a floppy, used "rdev"
> to set its root filesystem to /dev/hdb1, and it has no problem starting to boot the
>kernel off of floppy.
>
> so the kernel seems fine. in that case, what precisely causes
> the "kernel too big" error?
Madhu
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