Hi:

Does anyone know anything about this? I installed Mandrake 9.2, and 
after installed I start to boot it for the first time, I got this error 
message

Loading linuxEBDA too big...


The system is not halt, and I can reboot it with control+alt+del. But it 
just simply stop there.

I used LILO, and /dev/hda1 is the / . There is no any other OS on the 
system, the / is 2GB side. No any other mounting point is used.

Please help!!!

thanks

cocoa117 wrote:

> Loading linuxEBDA too big..

.... how large is the /boot partition?
..
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There is only one mounting position, which is "/". It is 2048MB. Big enough?

mjt wrote:
> cocoa117 wrote:
> 
> 
>>Loading linuxEBDA too big..
> 
> 
> ... how large is the /boot partition?
> .

"cocoa117" <cocoa117@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:bn1tbq$cuk$2@news.freedom2surf.net...
> Hi:
>
> Does anyone know anything about this? I installed Mandrake 9.2, and
> after installed I start to boot it for the first time, I got this error
> message
>
> Loading linuxEBDA too big...
>
>
> The system is not halt, and I can reboot it with control+alt+del. But it
> just simply stop there.
>
> I used LILO, and /dev/hda1 is the / . There is no any other OS on the
> system, the / is 2GB side. No any other mounting point is used.
>

This is a boot message from LILO.

The EBDA is Extended Bios Data Area which is located from the classical
16-bit PC top of memory (640 kbytes) downward. The message tells that the
LILO loader is not able to squeeze the things between the bottom of the
memory and the start of the EBDA.

Which motherboard / BIOS?

Is there an option of locating the EBDA at the interrupt vector area in the
BIOS setup screens?

One possible cause is that the core image is a zImage instead of a bzImage.
Usually a zImage is loaded in the low memory, but a bzImage is immediately
loaded above the 1 Mbyte mark.

HTH

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi