On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "B. J. Ram Rao" ramrao@bajirao.com Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
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Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3 hdc=ide-scsi [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xfa203]
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
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However Windows Me still boots perfectly. Even upgrading to GRUB 0.92 did not help!
Can anybody advise me on what is going on? What steps should I take to correct the situation.
The grub manual says:
28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory This error is returned if a kernel, module, or raw file load command is either trying to load its data such that it won't fit into memory or it is simply too big.
Grub loading by BIOS is complete, GRUB is now booting your kernel, but it might be that whatever the kernel is trying to load is too big for the available memory size. Is this a custom kernel with initrd loading a bunch of modules etc. ? I am not sure whether this will cause something like this.
If not, and assuming that your grub config was okay, it might be a BIOS and grub compatibility issue or it might have to do with some BIOS settings, specially ones that affect the way hard disks are accessed. A little safe playing around with BIOS settings might help, (Not manual setting of HDD geometry, see other things such as raid support etc.)
1 clear the mbr by - fdisk/mbr 2. boot into linux (with bootable disk ) & edit the grub file to correct the paths. I haven't used grub, so I can't help u much in that but don't worry somebody else will definitely help u.
This may not be useful as GRUB loads, and gives error when transferring control to kernel.
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I'd prefer to keep the new Intel BIOS P14. One compelling reason being that I don't know how to roll back to the old Intel BIOS P05.
Just use older BIOS flash disk, with explicit overwriting of BIOS option selected, normally present as a menu option as the flash program boots.
HTH,
Rajesh