Bug 14910 – grub exits with error 28 selected item cannot fit into memory

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dan 2003-02-01 06:47:20 UTC]

A search in google using the search terms "grub error 28" shows that this is not 
Gentoo specific. I have an asus motherboard with an nvidia chipset and 
integrated graphics and it does not seem to play nicely with grub.


When booting, the grub splashscreen comes up. I select Gentoo and get dumped out 
with "Error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory." The same error occurs 
using a boot floppy after I enter "kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4".




Using lilo instead works fine. My version of grub is 0.92


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.setup grub


2.reboot


3.select gentoo from the splashscreen



Actual Results:  
dumped to a console window with this text:


   Booting 'Gentoo Linux'


root (hd0,1)


 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83


kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda4


    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0xa00, size=0x12696f]


Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory


Press any key to continue...


Expected Results:  
booted into Linux

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-02-01 17:16:47 UTC]

try grub-0.93.20030118

does that work better?

maybe wont, but give it a try ;)

[Comment 2 Dan 2003-02-04 17:01:27 UTC]

No, sadly it didn't work. 

[Comment 3 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-02-15 11:49:12 UTC]

sorry, you might try posting this upstream to the GNU people then.

i dont have any idea what is wrong.

[Comment 4 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-03-22 16:00:37 UTC]

no idea

[Comment 5 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-09-26 21:53:38 UTC]

dunno where this came back from , the bugzilla is messed up.