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From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: linuxlist@visto.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel size
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 10:46:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C10F25C.FACDA516@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C07FA8E0005C3C2@iso1.vistocorporation.com> (added by administrator@vistocorporation.com)

rohit prasad wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I have compiled a kernel on a machine with a partition size of 20GB and am running it there.
> 
>  I ftp'd this kernel to another machine with similar partition size of 20GB but when I run lilo there I get a message "Fatal: Size too Big"
> 
> Why is that.

Guesses:  different versions of lilo, and you're getting the failure on
the older version?  Maybe it's refering to the size of the kernel as
opposed to the disk partition?

Eli
--------------------.     Real Users find the one combination of bizarre
Eli Carter           \ input values that shuts down the system for days.
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-07  8:53 kernel size rohit prasad
2001-12-07 16:46 ` Eli Carter [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-13  4:38 Kernel size rohit prasad
2001-10-09 14:16 kernel size VDA
2001-10-09 13:26 ` [solid]
2001-10-09 13:28 ` Nikita Danilov
2001-10-09 14:16 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-09 14:43   ` Ingo Oeser
2001-10-09 14:52     ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-09 15:43       ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-09 15:53         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-10  1:29           ` Keith Owens
2001-10-10 13:00             ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-10 14:47               ` vda
2001-10-11 12:41                 ` vda
2001-10-10  1:30           ` Kenneth Johansson
2001-10-09 15:55         ` Jakub Jelinek
2001-10-10  1:27     ` Keith Owens
2001-10-04 13:11 Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-04 14:24 ` Kernel size Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-13 20:35   ` Aaron Lehmann

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