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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:02:22
Message-Id: 20121224210042.GA1109@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with lilo and one of my kernels by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 09:27:13PM -0500, covici@××××××××××.com wrote
2 > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >
4 > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 05:40:05AM -0500, covici@××××××××××.com wrote
5 > > > Hi. Today on one of my test kernels where I am using git bisect to find
6 > > > a bug, I got the following when running lilo:
7 > > > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.0-rc4-00011-g2273929-dirty
8 > > > Fatal: Setup length exceeds 63 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot
9 > > > loader
10 > >
11 > > See messages #12 and #14 in
12 > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lilo-setup-length-exceeds-63-maximum%3B-943467/
13 > I think that is where it said to upgrade lilo, but I have the latest
14 > version and no joy.
15
16 That's not how I read that website. Could you post 2 items, to help
17 us figure out what might be going wrong?
18
19 1) The output from "ls -l /boot/" as well as any subdirectories in /boot
20
21 2) Your /etc/lilo.conf
22
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24 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
25 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications