From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756174Ab1DKWXY (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:23:24 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([173.164.175.65]:38357 "EHLO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753167Ab1DKWXX (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:23:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4DA37F58.2060604@tlinx.org> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:23:20 -0700 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML Subject: Re: starting >=2.6.36 FATAL: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader References: <4D65792C.8070703@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <4D65792C.8070703@tlinx.org> X-Stationery: 0.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linda Walsh wrote: > Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite > boot loader > Starting with 2.6.36, I started getting the above message. ... ---- FWIW, the above problem was fixed, recently in the latest release of LILO, V23.2, which one can download from: https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=100507&release_id=1670 I'd seen messages around the net asking about this problem, so thought I'd post the solution here in case anyone read this list, or might later be searching for solution.