Boot errors?

[Jim Tison]

Many thanks to Harvey Fishman and Tom Lostaunau, who came up with the 
right answer ... I hadn't rerun lilo <slaps self on forehead>. I suppose
it would do me well to read *all* of the kernel HOW-TO next time. 

Thanks again, guys :) 

--Jim-- 

Harvey Fishman wrote:
<snip> 

> >
> >   LILO Loading Linux............
> >   Uncompressing Linux...
> >
> >   ran out of input data
> >
> >
> >    -- System halted
> >
> 
> Are you ___SURE___ that you executed lilo after moving the image to /vmlinuz?
> You MUST do this to build the absolute references for LILO to find the image
> at boot time.  It sounds very much like LILO is loading an old image that is
> partially written over so that it runs out of data during decompression.
> 
> If this is the case, don't feel bad.  EVERYONE does this at one point or
> another.  I am very sensitive to the problem because it has caused me many
> headaches. ;-)
> 
> Harvey
> 
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