RedHat 8.0 Issues... Error 28 (GRUB)
 

I installed Redhat 8.0 on my system ... Everything went on perfect during the installation.... No Probs ...

I selected GRUB as my Boot Loader ...

When my system boots ... Finished .. I get this ridiculous message :-
On the GRUB Boot Loader screen it gives "650k Lower / 26056K upper memory"... Even after such huge amount of memory this ridiculous error message comes.

I have tried replacing GRUB with LILO.... But LILO is one step ahead.... It wont even go past a lame "LI" on the screen and then the whole system hangs...

I have searched everywhere for some solution for this this problem. A lot of people are suffering ... But NO ONE has an answer. The RedHat support is paid...and their forum servers are DOWN... GRUB has such a lame site that I am sure they wont reply to my emails.
If anyone has solved this problem please HELP ME !!!

My System Configuration :
Intel P4 2.0Ghz, D850MV board with 256MB RDRAM,
20GB HDD, ATI Radeon VE 64MB VRAM,

Hello ????

Any one of those Linux Gurus .. Please HELP ME !!

I am still stucked....

Please Help !!

Hey hey just chill, we don't have the asnwer for everything...

Give it some time my friend...

#Garry :D

Does No One Has this Problem Yet ???
 

Anybody there please havin a solution...

Is it that I am the first person to be having this problem.

LILO also gets hanged ... once the computer completes POST ... and then "LI" .. thats it ..

I am using GRUB version 0.92 ... Somebody says that version 0.93 solves the problem. I searched the net for this version but I found it NO WHERE !!

Ok .. Hoping for an answer....

Have you tried using RH cd to boot into Rescue mode and then look in /etc/lilo.conf to see if everything is pointing in the correct path?

Make sure your boot/root is pointing correctly:

example: root=/dev/hdax, where x = your RH root partition.

If you do make changes, be sure to run /sbin/lilo to update lilo.

Hope this helps.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html

You can get the 0.93 version from CVS found at the link above.

Also check out the FAQ on their website, there are some questions about grub hanging the system. Of particular note is the possibility that the motherboard BIOS could be a problem. And seeing as others in this forum had the same problem with the same motherboard you listed, then I would suspect that is the problem.

Try to remember that this is a *voluntary* forum, no one here is getting paid. If you mucked up your system, and need help, then ask, but just don't get mad when you don't get a response immediately. Have patience.


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Why did you choose to use ext2fs instead of ext3?
Can you post the contents of your grub.conf file?
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Having the same problem... with almost the same hardware configuration
 

My System Configuration :
Intel P4 2.0Ghz, D850MV board with 512MB RDRAM,
40GB HDD - Windows XP (primary - master)
40GB HDD - Linux 8.0 (secondary - master)
80GB HDD - NTFS Storage (SIIG Ultra ATA 133 PCI - secondary master)

Installed GRUB to MBR

LILO Configuration ......
 

Here is the contents of the /etc/lilo.conf file

Nothing happens if I change "linear" to "compact" .. If I remove "linear" the screen is full of 1's and 0's running at blazing fast speeds ...

Thats It !!!

GRUB Configuration ...
 

First of all there is no GRUB version 0.93 anywhere .. I searched the CVS site and only found GRUB version 0.92.

I have checked out the FAQs in the site.. and tried all possible thing to get my GRUB load the "vmlinuz-2.4.18-14" image .. But NO SUCCESS !!!

I never said I had problem installing GRUB .. GRUB is installed properly but it FAILS to load the image into the memory....

I am only able to load/boot LINUX through a boot floppy..

I never selected ext2fs as the File System.. I chose ext3 .. ext3 is simply an extension to ext2 with features like journaling etc. So its GRUB that says that the file system of my root partition is ext2fs .. Linux (when booted through floppy) shows my partitions ext3.

Here is the contents of the /boot/grub/grub.conf file

It is in the "kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/" line that GRUB gives the error ...
"Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory"
This is a rubbish error message as I am having 256 MB RAM .. My friend "SpcRacMD" says he has 512 MB RAM ...

If anybody knows how to contact GRUB developer "Okuji" .. Please contact me.... At least he must be knowing a way out of this ...

grub 0.93 solved the problem.

Don't have the link here, but it took me 5 minutes to find links for it on www.google.com

Also, had trouble booting with the newest kernel due to APM but the original (that which comes on the CD) worked fine.

Thanks Buddy !!
 

WOW !! GRUB v0.93 works perfect and fine !!!

I too had that same problem with APM but I resolved it by going to the Intel BIOS settings and enabling APM... Previously it was disabled and so Linux hanged up..

But now its RUNNING and WORKING FINE !!!

For other having this same problem just download this latest GRUB v0.93 and install it...

grub-0.93-0.20021001.i386.rpm

You have to install it by issuing the following command :-
Update the old images in your /boot partition with this command (I have used /dev/hda1 ) :-
Then execute /sbin/grub and then in the GRUB shell type the following :-
That will do the JOB ... for you !!

Re: GRUB Configuration ...
 

The error does not stem from the total amount of RAM, it would give you the same error if you had 64 MB or 1024MB. The reason for the error is probably a little too deep for this forum, but in a nutshell, it is trying to fit the image into a smaller part of RAM.
- "650k Lower / 26056K upper memory"...
This is an issue that has to do with the 650K lower and your systems way of dealing with that.

You can report any problems (bugs) through the website I gave you previously. Keep in mind that this is an Open-Source project, and the developer is *not* being paid.

---------
Jeremiah

No Worries Man... Its solved.... GRUB 0.92 has the problem, and not my system.
I know whats Open Source project. :-)

Now my next target is to solve the LILO problem... That gives me problem too and secondly to get back GUI (with splash screen) in GRUB... Currently the mode is 80x25 Text only..

ok i'm pretty sure that I'm having the grub 0.92 problem as well. I am a complete newbie & am wondering how to install it. If someone could provide a walkthrough I would appreciate it. I am also using a scsi drive so i believe that I am using /dev/sda1 Windows is setup on a different drive i am not utilizing grub as a boot manager, i am using my scsi adapter's bios to do that. I would like to become familiar with linux befor attempting to dual boot. I have a 100 mb /boot partition, a 5gb "/" partition (i'm guessing root), a 1gb /swap, and a 2gb vfat /osshare. they were all setup with disk druid.

I have downloaded grub 0.93 how do i install it. i even have difficulty accessing different drives. please help if you can.

So how do I get to a command line that will let me install the RPM?