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["Greg head" <ghead AT hotmail.com>]

The problem is with the Slackware 7.1 version of lilo. Use the version from 
Slackware 7.0 and it works fine.

Greg

> From: Ernesto Celis <celise AT prodigy.net.mx>
> Reply-To: celise AT Prodigy.Net.mx, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [BL] litle problem with lilo
> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:09:24 -0500
>
> >>
> >> I just have a litle problem with lilo, when I try to
> >> configure lilo to boot with the zimage kernel provided
> >> with BL 2.10, lilo says it is too big (the zimage
> kernel).
> >
> > Sorry about that.  I packaged the BL2 kernel as a zimage
> > because it is smaller than a bzimage.  Loadlin is happy to
> > boot a zimage of that size, but apparently lilo has a
> 500kb
> > maximum.
> >
> >> Then I'm using for now the bare.i/bzimage kernel from
> >> slackware 7.1,
> >
> > I think that is the best solution (until you are able to
> > compile a custom kernel specifically for your hardware).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
>
> At the moment I don't have space on my HD to compile nothing
> (it is a 200MB HD), but in a few days I'll be having a
> better PC than my old 486, maybe a Pentium with 2GB HD and a
> modem!!! (I don't have a modem for my 486, only the
> EtherWorks3 NIC, thanks for de e3wrk module in BL 2.10) to
> run BL . Maybe then in the new PC I will be compiling the BL
> kernel as bzimage with the same config file of BL (The BL
> kernel have just what I need)
>
> celisdelafuente AT hotmail.com
> celise AT prodigy.net.mx
> 044 834 8 53 81 77
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