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Old 02-01-2007, 07:31 AM   #1
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Angry Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory


Hi guys,

I am trying to install Solaris 10 11/06 on a new box from CDs that are known to be good. I used this set to install Solaris 3 other times on other boxes.

I am getting an error when GNU Grub version 0.95 (637k lower / 65526k upper memory) tries to boot the installer.

module /boot/x86.miniroot

Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory.

I searched and found many people reporting this problem but no solutions. There is a bug that was reported over a year ago here http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatab...bug_id=6387379.

I also got the error 28 on other boxes when I tried to install Solaris and was not able to boot it, but that was with earlier versions. After 11/06 came out I was able to install and run it fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rand
 
Old 02-01-2007, 04:36 PM   #2
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The bug you report is marked as fixed for Solaris Express build 43 and up. Did you try installing one of it ?
 
Old 02-03-2007, 11:54 AM   #3
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Hi jlliagre, thank you for the information. I have downloaded build 52 and as soon as I can burn a CD and test it I will post my results.

Thank you very much as always for your kind assistance

Rand
 
Old 02-04-2007, 10:07 PM   #4
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I tested a CD from build 52 of Solaris Express and I still get the same error message
 
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Okay, so perhaps is it just not a bug.

Can you tell more about the machine your are trying to install Solaris on ?
 
Old 02-05-2007, 07:26 AM   #6
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It's a PIII with 640M ram and Dell motherboard, ATAPI 32X CD/DVD-ROM w/128kB cache. This machine actually boots and runs a lot of distros and BSD that my newer boxes don't run.
 
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Are you sure of the numbers from your first posting ?

It seems grub sees only 64 MBytes available.
 
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I will try again and check the message as soon as codeblocks is done recompiling on this box
 
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Are you sure of the numbers from your first posting ?

It seems grub sees only 64 MBytes available.
You are correct, Grub is not seeing the memory. This is the error.

Just to confirm here are some dmesg from OpenBSD and Slackware:

OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006
..
cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 599 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
real mem = 670646272 (654928K)
avail mem = 603004928 (588872K)

Linux version 2.6.17.13 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 Sat Sep 9 01:11:49 CDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fd800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000040fd800 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000028000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
640MB LOWMEM available.

Is there any way to install Solaris on this box? How can I report this error to Solaris?

Thank you,
Rand

Last edited by Randux; 02-06-2007 at 09:13 AM.
 
Old 02-06-2007, 06:28 PM   #10
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This looks more like a Grub error to me, as Solaris is not yet in the game at the time the error happen, but you may want to try the OpenSolaris bug or the installation forum http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=11 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=107
 
Old 02-06-2007, 07:43 PM   #11
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Yes, I agree with you. But I think Solaris will be more interested in fixing this than FSF

Thanks for the links. I'll see if I can find an answer or report this problem.
 
Old 02-07-2007, 03:37 PM   #12
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This problem was reported on OpenSolaris in April 2006 . So far it is not being worked on.

Someone in OpenSolaris forums explained it to me. The problem is that even though there is enough memory, it is broken into segments. The first segment is not big enough. Grub stops searching when he sees the first insufficient memory segment. but if he would continue he would find other segments which are big enough.

I opened another problem against b52 but you can't find it on the bug database yet.

Thank you for your help.

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thre...D=91861&#91861

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