Mailing List Archive: Errors with kernel compilation/install

So I got the xen source, ran "make xen", "make tools", the copied my custom Linux kernel .config to dist/install/boot/config-2.6.11-xen0 and ran "make kernels". When I went into the kernel linux-2.6.11-xen0 and ran "make ARCH=xen menuconfig" to check to see if my custom kernel options were there they weren't. So xen ignored my config.

So I copied in my custom .config to xen-unstable/linux-2.6.11-xen0/ and
ran "make kernels" again. Then copied the vmlinuz-2.6.11.8-xen0 kernel
image and accompanying System.map from xen-unstable/dist/install/boot/
to /boot and put a stanza in lilo.conf. Here's what happens when I run
lilo:

# lilo
Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot
loader

I've never seen this sort of message from lilo before.

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> So I got the xen source, ran "make xen", "make tools", the copied my custom
> Linux kernel .config to dist/install/boot/config-2.6.11-xen0 and ran "make
> kernels". When I went into the kernel linux-2.6.11-xen0 and ran "make
> ARCH=xen menuconfig" to check to see if my custom kernel options were there
> they weren't. So xen ignored my config.

Hrrrm. I'm not sure that's the intended behaviour.

> So I copied in my custom .config to xen-unstable/linux-2.6.11-xen0/ and
> ran "make kernels" again. Then copied the vmlinuz-2.6.11.8-xen0 kernel
> image and accompanying System.map from xen-unstable/dist/install/boot/
> to /boot and put a stanza in lilo.conf. Here's what happens when I run
> lilo:

You really need to use Grub to boot Xen / XenLinux. If you *really* want ot
keep Lilo you might be able to use the mbootpack program in the unstable tree
to package Xen and XenLinux into a lilo-bootable image (this program will
work on -stable tree kernels too).

Cheers,
Mark

> # lilo
> Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot
> loader
>
>
> I've never seen this sort of message from lilo before.
>
>
>
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