26 Jul
2002
26 Jul
'02
11:49 p.m.
I built a desktop using the Intel D850MV motherboard with a Pentium
4/1.60 GHz CPU and 256MB RDRAM (4 x 64MB/PC600 RIMM cards). The desktop
board came with BIOS version P05 (MV85010A.86A.0011.P05.0111141737)
preinstalled.
I installed two Seagate ST340810A 40-GB hard drives. The primary master
drive had a Windows 95 (LBA) partition for Windows Me, and the primary
slave drive was partitioned into 10GB EXT3 for Linux and 30GB for
Windows Me. The bootloader was GRUB 0.91, for switching between a RedHat
7.3 boot and a Windows Me boot.
Everything (RedHat 7.3 and Windows Me)worked perfectly.
28 Jul
28 Jul
5:56 a.m.
New subject: Intel motherboard BIOS upgrade causing GRUB failure on RedHat 7.3 Linux boot
At 18:00 26/07/02 +0530, RAM (133MHz ?) wrote:
Can anybody advise me on what is going on? What steps
should I take to
correct the situation. 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.
Didnt the bios flasher give you any option for backing up your old
bios? If it did and you do have a backup then the process is exactly like
flashing to newer bios.
BTW who is the manufacturer of your bios?
quasi
29 Jul
29 Jul
6:28 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "B. J. Ram Rao" <ramrao(a)bajirao.com>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
I may not be correct but, this is what I conclude from your problem.
Check it out
[snip]
I installed two Seagate ST340810A 40-GB hard drives.
The primary master
drive had a Windows 95 (LBA) partition for Windows Me, and the primary
slave drive was partitioned into 10GB EXT3 for Linux and 30GB for
Windows Me.
i. e. your Linux is on your 2nd disk ( hdb)
GRUB stopped booting Linux with the following boot
screen.
-------------------------------------------------------------
root (hd1,0)
how it comes to hd1, it should be hd2 ( just my guess )
as your linux is on 2nd disk
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
Press any key to continue...
-------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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.
Other way is.....
uninstall grub.
clear mbr
& make a clean new grub installation
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.
Don't roll back just go ahead.
But before, be sure that u have installed BIOS properly ( with no errors)
Check it out once again if u have any doubt
Thanks & Regards,
SAMEER :)
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31 Jul
31 Jul
2:58 p.m.
New subject: Intel motherboard BIOS...
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "B. J. Ram Rao" <ramrao(a)bajirao.com>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
[snip]
> 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
>
> Press any key to continue...
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
[snip]
>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
4:34 p.m.
New subject: Intel boards ......suck bigtime
--- Rajesh Deo <rajeshdeo(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. J. Ram Rao" <ramrao(a)bajirao.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
>
[snip]
At Zenith we have been working with tonz of Intel
Desktop boards.....nd believe me, if u were a
gnu-linux enthusiast, u would prefer to keep away frm
these boards even if the vendor would thrown in a
lovely package.
The support for various hardware is
attrocious....also, kernel 2.4.18> onwards i have
noticed that most if the Intel Drivers have made if
OUT of the kernel Source Tree. Some of the driversi
recvd from Intel haven't been released to the Comunity
at large.
This is what we infer after frustrating experiences
with Intel Desktop boards.
Trevor Warren
Trevor Warren
[snip]
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3
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5 p.m.
New subject: Intel boards ......suck bigtime
--- Rajesh Deo <rajeshdeo(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. J. Ram Rao" <ramrao(a)bajirao.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
>
[snip]
At Zenith we have been working with tonz of Intel
Desktop boards.....nd believe me, if u were a
gnu-linux enthusiast, u would prefer to keep away frm
these boards even if the vendor would thrown in a
lovely package.
The support for various hardware is
attrocious....also, kernel 2.4.18> onwards i have
noticed that most if the Intel NIC Drivers have made
if OUT of the kernel Source Tree. Some of the driversi
recvd from Intel haven't been released to the Comunity
at large.
This is what we infer after frustrating experiences
with Intel Desktop boards.
Trevor Warren
Trevor Warren
[snip]
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3
=====
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