Re: lilo doesn't like tagged image??

[Georg Baum <Georg.Baum@gmx.de>]

Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>         I'm new to this list though I have looked through the archives. I'm having
> a problem installing a network boot kernel in my iopener. Since I don't
> have any experience compiling a kernel for network booting so I'm wondering
> if the parameters I passed to mknbi are incorrect or if there is some
> incompatibility issue between lilo versions 20 and 21 and mknbi-linux (from
> mknbi-1.0.tar.gz package)?
> 
> Since the stock iopener kernel from LTSP doesn't initialize my Linksys
> USB100TX adapter, I compiled kernel 2.3.99pre9 on my Redhat 6.2 box and
> tagged it with mknbi-linux. The tagged kernel is 785K, the untagged bzImage
> is 780K.
> 

Hi,

if you want to use lilo to start the kernel, you must not tag it with
mknbi-linux, just install the bzImage into the right location and then
execute lilo. Tagged kernels are only necesssary if you want etherboot
or netboot to load them from a server.

Georg
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