FC6T3 x86-64 booting issue

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Sep 21 18:40:40 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 14:27 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> >  > 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.
>
> Yeah, this is because of a change that was backed out because it was
> limiting vmalloc= on non-hughmem kernels to be ~500M instead of ~700M or
> so, and we couldn't find any bug related to it or figure out quite why
> it was there.  It's back in in the build I did today, and I'm advising
> the customers who care to bite the bullet and run hughmem.  So this
> should be fixed in tomorrow's tree.

Also, you should be able to workaround and get your machine to boot by
going into the grub "uppermem" command

Jeremy




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