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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:37:43AM -0800, Eric Womack wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:05 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Arwed von Merkatz said:
> > > Well, i know for a fact that lilo won't boot any kernel newer than
> > > 2.4.17.
> > >
> > > It gives some strange error message when it tries to boot, don't
> > > remember it. When that happened (right after my upgrade to 2.4.18), i
> > > googled around a bit and found very few information, but it seems it's a
> > > problem with some bios related to kernel size. The only fix i found was
> > > installing grub.
> >
> > Works fine for most BIOS's:  ;)
> >
> > sandalle@rover:~$ uname -a
> > Linux rover 2.4.19-grsec #1 SMP Sun Dec 15 21:23:54 PST 2002 i686 unknown
> > sandalle@rover:~$ gaze installed lilo
> > 22.3.4
> 
> Same here:
> 
> eric@engineering:~$ uname -a
> Linux engineering 2.4.20-xfs #1 SMP Tue Dec 24 12:52:37 PST 2002 i686 
> unknown
> eric@engineering:~$ gaze installed lilo
> 22.3.4

Well, here it doesn't work. So i think grub should be an option for
install.


Arwed
aka alley_cat