FC6T3 x86-64 booting issue

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Sep 21 16:29:27 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:25:19PM +0100, Tomas Lanik wrote:

 > The install went all OK but the result is the same, even with the 
 > correct initrd-<version>.img is in /boot:
 > root(hd0,0)
 > FileSystem Type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
 > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6 ro root=/dev/basevg/rootlv rhgb quiet
 >  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x20865b]
 > initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6.img
 >  [Linux-initrd @ 0xdf916000, 0x5b9800 bytes]
 > 
 > Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
 > Press any key to continue...
 > 
 > It think it might be related to the raid system and(or) GRUB.. Could the 
 > GRUB update from linux rescue help?
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 > GRUB ERROR DESCRIPTION
 > 
 > 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.

Bizarre. How much RAM do you actually have ?
*thinks*, Peter, I recall something magical about grub and x86-64
a while back (I think it was on one of those 'viper' boxes).
Ring any bells ?

	Dave 




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