On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a weird problem with lilo. I just recently installed Mandrake 6.1.
> The install went smooth. No problems. After finishing the installation,
> I decided to build a custom kernel, since the one that comes with Mandrake
> supports a lot of things I don't need and consequently is fairly big at
> 570kB. So I built custom kernel which is about 425kB. I modified
> /etc/lilo.conf copied the new kernel and System.map into /boot and ran
> lilo. Lilo failed. The error message said something to the extend that
> my custom kernel was too big. Lilo does not complain about the original
> Mandrake kernel being too big! Which makes???? Has anyone else
> encountered this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Try recompiling and make bzImage instead of zImage.
John
