Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:27:13PM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 05:40:05AM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote Hi. Today on one of my test kernels where I am using git bisect to find a bug, I got the following when running lilo: Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.0-rc4-00011-g2273929-dirty Fatal: Setup length exceeds 63 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader See messages #12 and #14 in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lilo-setup-length-exceeds-63-maximum%3B-943467/ I think that is where it said to upgrade lilo, but I have the latest version and no joy. That's not how I read that website. Could you post 2 items, to help us figure out what might be going wrong? 1) The output from ls -l /boot/ as well as any subdirectories in /boot 2) Your /etc/lilo.conf -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 05:40:05AM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote Hi. Today on one of my test kernels where I am using git bisect to find a bug, I got the following when running lilo: Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.0-rc4-00011-g2273929-dirty Fatal: Setup length exceeds 63 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader See messages #12 and #14 in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lilo-setup-length-exceeds-63-maximum%3B-943467/ -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 05:40:05AM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote Hi. Today on one of my test kernels where I am using git bisect to find a bug, I got the following when running lilo: Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.0-rc4-00011-g2273929-dirty Fatal: Setup length exceeds 63 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader See messages #12 and #14 in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lilo-setup-length-exceeds-63-maximum%3B-943467/ I think that is where it said to upgrade lilo, but I have the latest version and no joy. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
[gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels
Hi. Today on one of my test kernels where I am using git bisect to find a bug, I got the following when running lilo: Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.0-rc4-00011-g2273929-dirty Fatal: Setup length exceeds 63 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader I looked and there is a bug on gentoo, but it says the problem is fixed, but I have sys-boot/lilo-23.2-r2 andthe problem persists. Is my setup really too large and if so, how do I make it smaller, or is there an alternative to boot my kernels which does not have this problem? Thanks in advance for any ideas you might have. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
