well, I don't want to get you in trouble, but I had the same error when I configured it through the GUI lilo program, but under the command line it was ok. I just made a boot disk, crossed my fingers, and it worked fine, and has since. I was upgrading to 2.4.3-12
> ---------- > From: Michael Schwendt[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 1:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: lilo error - Fatal: kernel is too big > > On 2001-10-16, John Purser wrote: > > >I just built my first custom kernel under Red Hat 7.1, edited lilo.conf, and > >ran lilo. lilo gives me the error: > >Fatal: Kernel /boot/kernel is too big > > > >The Image is bzipped and is only slightly larger that the kernel I'm > >currently running and smaller than the one I'm running under Debian on > >another similar machine. The old kernel is 2.4.2 and the new one is 2.4.10. > >My machine is a PIII 550 with 196 megs of ram. The version of lilo is > >21.4-4 > > > >Any hints as to what's gone wrong and what I have to do to fix it? > > Where did you take the kernel image from? > How large is it? How did you install the kernel image exactly? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
