Re: Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp is too big

[Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de>]

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Hi Frederic!

Shouldn't it be the compressed kernel image vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp?
                                                  ^ use z instead of x...

the difference is nearly 2Mb. With z it should work...

Regards,
Martin

On Thu, 1 May 2003 00:59:37 -0400
"Frederic Trudeau" <ftrudeau@zesolution.com> bubbled:

> Greetings.
> 
> I am really not sure if I post this problem to the right list, but here it
> is ...
> I've got RH 7.3 running on a i686 SMP machine. I downloaded and
> installed RedHat's kernel-smp-2.4.18-3 RPM, reconfigured lilo, rebooted,
> bingo.
> 
> Now im having problems with the kernel-smp-2.4.18-27.7.x RPM.
> 
> When trying to run lilo, I get the error message, that I pasted in the
> subject line
> Now, the error message is pretty obvious, but I still dont get why lilo (or
> anything
> else) wouls give me this error message, since this is a RPM that was build
> for
> my exact system architecture, and my exact OS.
> 
> Here is the content of my /boot directory :
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          512 Apr 29 19:17 boot.0800
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5824 Jun 24  2001 boot.b
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          612 Jun 24  2001 chain.b
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        42255 Mar 14 06:24
> config-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        39947 Apr 18  2002 config-2.4.18-3
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        39945 Apr 18  2002 config-2.4.18-3smp
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Apr 30 08:58 grub
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       267061 Apr 30 08:58
> initrd-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp.img
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       261683 Apr 29 19:08 initrd-2.4.18-3.img
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       268599 Apr 29 19:07
> initrd-2.4.18-3smp.img
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          477 Apr 29 19:22 kernel.h
> drwx------    2 root     root        12288 Apr 29 19:02 lost+found
> -rw-------    1 root     root        32768 Apr 29 20:11 map
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        23108 Jun 24  2001 message
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Apr 29 19:08 module-info ->
> module-info-2.4.18-3
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        15436 Mar 14 06:24
> module-info-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14431 Apr 18  2002 module-info-2.4.18-3
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14431 Apr 18  2002
> module-info-2.4.18-3smp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          640 Jun 24  2001 os2_d.b
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           22 Apr 29 19:22 System.map ->
> System.map-2.4.18-3smp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       518438 Mar 14 06:24
> System.map-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       465966 Apr 18  2002 System.map-2.4.18-3
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       490685 Apr 18  2002
> System.map-2.4.18-3smp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3463389 Mar 14 06:24
> vmlinux-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2835238 Apr 18  2002 vmlinux-2.4.18-3
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      3176626 Apr 18  2002 vmlinux-2.4.18-3smp
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Apr 29 19:08 vmlinuz ->
> vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1155108 Mar 14 06:24
> vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.7.xsmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1030147 Apr 18  2002 vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1108097 Apr 18  2002 vmlinuz-2.4.18-3smp
> 
> Any pointers appreciated.
> 
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