FS#5447 - Grub error 28 with > 2gig of memory when loading 64-bit kernel
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Opened by R. L. Bekkema (Haiyadragon) - Monday, 25 September 2006, 17:42 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Sunday, 15 October 2006, 09:22 GMT
Opened by R. L. Bekkema (Haiyadragon) - Monday, 25 September 2006, 17:42 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Sunday, 15 October 2006, 09:22 GMT
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Details
Apparently Grub can't deal with systems that have more than
2 gigs of memory very well and will not detect the available
memory correctly. It will not detect enough to load a 64-bit
kernel (in my case anyway) and it will throw an "Error 28
Selected item cannot fit into memory". A bug report (for
Grub) with a patch was filed about two years ago but it was
never actually absorbed.
Bug report with patch: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9954 Maybe it's a good idea to include this patch in the Grub build. |
This task depends upon
I was able to boot Arch64 with 3GB of memory.
For Maintainers: The source can be found at: http://www.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/x86_64/grub-0.97-3.src.tar.gz