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Re: booting larger kernals



Alright, I figured out why that message was happening, but now I've got a
new one to play with, I'm getting an usupported error message for the type
of zImage that I have.
 -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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