[gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels

[gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels

[covici]

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.

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels

[Walter Dnes]

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/

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Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels

[covici]

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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels

[Walter Dnes]

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

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications