From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:00:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121224210042.GA1109@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8255.1356316033@ccs.covici.com>
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:27:13PM -0500, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 05:40:05AM -0500, covici@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 <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-24 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-22 10:40 [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels covici
2012-12-24 1:56 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-24 2:27 ` covici
2012-12-24 21:00 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
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