Same problem occured for me when i first compiled the kernel. The problem is that the kernel size may be bigger than the RAM size .in my case i compiled the kernel on a 16MB machine,the kernel image became very large.now i tried to boot it hanged after saying "Loading kernel........." now i tried the same kernel on a 128MB machine it booted perfectly. solution to the problem may be solved by recompling the kernel with MODULES rather than static compiling. thanks vamsi On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Navil Joseph wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to compile the kernel 2.4.20 on a newly installed > Redhat 8.0 system. > > The kernel and the modules was compiled successfully. > > But i was getting the following error when executing "make install" > > ........ > ........ > Setup is 2521 bytes. > System is 964 kB > warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy > sh -x ./install.sh 2.4.20 bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/System.map "" > + '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']' > + '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']' > + exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.20 bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/System.map '' > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/i386/boot' > > > > However i managed to configure grub manually by adding the new image. > But i couldn't boot with the new kernel. > > It hangs with "Loading kernel....."! > > Can anyone tell me what i am missing here..? > > TIA, > john > > > -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 1.2 GCS d+ H- s g+++ !p !au a21 w-- v--- C++ U+++ P++ L+++ !3 N-- E- W M- !VMS po+++ t-- !5 !j R- G? !tv b++++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
