[Techtalk] why is my kernel so big???

[Pierre Fortin]

On Thu, 9 May 2002 18:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Dave North <dave at timocharis.com>
wrote:

> The bad news is, the resultant kernel hangs. Why? I don't even
> know where, since Mandrake so kindly includes the playskool startup
> screen that doesn't allow me to watch the progress of the kernel. That
> may or may not be a problem, since the screen never appears.

A google groups search suggests removing Aurora or renaming/deleting
/etc/aurora

If you still don't get kernel messages, remove the "quiet" option from the
LILO config.

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/kernel-parameters.txt.html

Pierre