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.
--- Lech Alves vikingwarrior@gmx.net wrote:
file system type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 [linux-bzimage,setup-0x1400,size=0xff8b0]
Try using lilo instead of GRUB. Just see whether it solves the problem.
Regards Tapesh
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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.
root(hd0,8) error 28: selected item doesn't fit into memory.
I've exactly the same configuration with just extra ram I had same problem what you've mentioned.
Apparently it seems it is the problem with grub bootloader. I changed bootloader to 'lilo' and it worked fine.
Just for your info, (if you have not yet configured X on nvidia) you will need to download and configure drivers for nvidia. In case you have any trouble doing it, do mail me off-list.
Regards, Ranjeet Walunj
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.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lech Alves" vikingwarrior@gmx.net
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.
Same conf here and using lilo like everyone else mentioned. Didn't face that problem but I am using RH 9.
Didn't download the drivers from nvidia.com, kernel-2.4.21 seemed to have adequate support for everything.
kernel-2.5.74 has great support for nForce but I couldn't get it to boot, just stops after uncompressing Linux. No error messages.
- cnb
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:41:36PM +0530, Chandrashekhar Bhosle wrote:
kernel-2.5.74 has great support for nForce but I couldn't get it to boot, just stops after uncompressing Linux. No error messages.
There are some docs to help you on this part.
The 2.5+ versions have made many things that we take for granted (like console support) optional, and unselected by default.
So, there's no support for the console, keyboard, mouse etc. Also, the layout of the HDD partitions in /dev has changed, so either you choose the 'legacy' option, or modify your /etc/fstab to have entries like /dev/disks/... etc.
See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt for good/complete details.
Thanks to it, I'm running 2.6.0-test1 ...
***************** riverdale:~% uname -a 10:08PM Linux riverdale.intranet.persistent.co.in 2.6.0-test1 #10 Tue Jul 15 00:56:21 IST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux riverdale:~% *****************
hth.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ravindra Jaju" jaju@it.iitb.ac.in
kernel-2.5.74 has great support for nForce but I couldn't get it to
boot,
just stops after uncompressing Linux. No error messages.
There are some docs to help you on this part.
Apparently it was none of the below. Upgrading to kernel-2.6.0-test1 made it work fine with the same .config
- cnb
The 2.5+ versions have made many things that we take for granted (like console support) optional, and unselected by default.
So, there's no support for the console, keyboard, mouse etc. Also, the layout of the HDD partitions in /dev has changed, so either you choose the 'legacy' option, or modify your /etc/fstab to have entries like /dev/disks/... etc.
See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt for good/complete
details.
Thanks to it, I'm running 2.6.0-test1 ...
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