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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 :-
Code:
Booting 'Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
[Linux_bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x11154a]
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Press any key to continue ....
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,
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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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
Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
# end configuration
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 ...
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...
Originally posted by mainak
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 ...
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.
Quote:
If anybody knows how to contact GRUB developer "Okuji" .. Please contact me.... At least he must be knowing a way out of this ...
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.
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.
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