13-Jul-00 00:40 you wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently had time to mess with grub and linux 2.4.0-test{1,2} and to get
> my set up working. I've found that the problem seems to be that when the
> kernel is too big, one gets that error. The kernel mentioned in my last
> email was fairly large (>1.1MB) with everything I use compiled in, but when
> I recompiled it with sound built as a module, it worked fine (the resulting
> kernel was <1.1MB).
> Just thought I'd share this little tidbit with you.
BTW large linux kernels can not load itself from floppy. It's known problem
so when you said "I think it it a bug in Linux, since your kernel image even
cannot boot itself (using a floppy disk)" you were right - it IS bug in linux.
I do not think it justifies GRUB unability to load such kernel: latest LiLo
works fine for it...
