I've seen this "uncompressing kernel image" message before. I'm sitting here trying to recall what the problem is. A few suggestions that come to mind is first make sure lilo knows exactly where your kernel image lives, make sure it is in the first 8gb as suggested to you, make sure if you either downloaded the kernel or compiled it that you in fact have compiled it for the correct processor although it should boot regardless even if behaves incorrectly, make sure again you go over the liloconf file carefully and note where everything is because its possible lilo can't find the image, oh and also you might check to see that there is a line that says something like, Support LBA for large hard disks. # lba32 and beyond that, begin running in circles, scream, and then attack the problem again. good luck Scott
