[ale] LILO Says Big Kernel

Eric Z. Ayers eric.ayers at mindspring.com
Mon Nov 22 20:26:55 EST 1999


Prasanna,

1) make sure you compiled with make bzImage and you aren't pointing to 
'vmlinux' (which is the uncompresed kernel)

2) You will have to re-configure and re-compile the kernel and make some
things as modules to make the kernel smaller.

-Eric.

Prasanna Subash writes:
 > I compiled the kernel and created the bzImage. I made lilo.conf point to the
 > new kernel and ran lilo and got the error msg that the kernel was too big. 
 > 
 > What should I do ?
 > 
 > Prasanna Subash
 > Manhattan Associates, Inc 
 > Phone: 770 955 5533 x 1047 
 > psubash at manh.com 






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