Your (monitor?)and GEFORCE 2 MX display card are new models, which are not recognised by Redhat 7.2 ....Even by Redhat 8 ... Your problem also seem to be the same...what i faced. U might have experienced during installation it says (monitor?) and video card not probed and asks u to select....
error 28: selected item doesn't fit into memory.
this error message shows u selected Grub bootloader. However using lilo ...u would only be able to use terminals and perform all functions. New versions RedHat 9, Mandrake 8- -9.1 will work..... try that. if u have debian try that too and let us know what happens....
----- Original Message ----- From: Lech Alves vikingwarrior@gmx.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:43 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] trouble booting into GNU/LINUX
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Hello linuxers,
I recently upgraded my system to an Athlon XP 2000+ , 256 mb DDR RAM , 80 GB HDD , Asus A7N266-VM motherboard with a built in GEFORCE 2 MX display card.
I installed red hat 7.3 on the new system (dual boot with windows 98 se running on the primary partition). However when i try to boot into linux i get the following error message :
root(hd0,8)
file system type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda9 hdc=ide-scsi [linux-bzimage,setup-0x1400,size=0xff8b0]
error 28: selected item doesn't fit into memory.
Thinking that it could possibly have something to do with the location on the HDD where linux was installed , I reinstalled red hat 7.3 on an old 4.3 GB HDD as the only OS ; still getting the same error though.
Could someone please pin point the cause of the problem and suggest a way of getting around it.
-- Thanking You'll, Lech.