Re: booting larger kernals

• To: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
• Subject: Re: booting larger kernals
• From: "Will Shaver" <shaverw@oit.edu>
• Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 19:48:18 -0700
• References: <001601c0d8f2$6313c860$8b8bd38c@oit.edu>
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I solved that too, instead of using the mklinuximage to create the boot
image, using mkmbimage in the /oskit/boot/multiboot directory seems to work
just fine.
 -Will
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Shaver" <shaverw@oit.edu>
To: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:41 PM
Subject: booting larger kernals


> Alright, I know that someone out there HAS to know how to boot a large
> kernal, such as the one called blkio which happens to be quite a bit
larger
> than the 640k (or is it 64k) size limit. I was informed by a friend that
> GRUB might do the trick for me. I tried grub and got the following error
> messages.
> grub> kernel /boot/zImage
>
> Error: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
>
> I assume this is because the kernel is too large. What do I do?
>
>  will
>

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