Bug 111392

Summary:	Grub fails to boot if system has more than 2gb of ram
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roy Walker <rwalker>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for 0.96-r3 grub

Description Roy Walker 2005-11-03 12:34:41 UTC

I have not verified this problem on x86, but on x86_64 any machine with greater
than 2gb of ram will not load.  You get "error 28 : Selected item cannot fit
into memory".  This is due to grub not correctly detecting the amount of ram. 
Attached is a patch against 0.97 to correct this.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install grub on system with more than 2gb of ram.
2.  Boot.
3.

Comment 1 Roy Walker 2005-11-03 12:44:27 UTC

Created attachment 72045 [details, diff]
patch for 0.96-r3 grub

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-03 12:55:15 UTC

Is this the same issue as in Bug 99897? If so, could you attach the patch there
instead and mark this bug as duplicate, please?

Comment 3 Roy Walker 2005-11-03 15:35:38 UTC

I don't know if it is the same problem as 99897.  The bug there is talking about
not detecting all the ram.  Grub will show you that it found 4gb of ram, it is
just not able to allocate it.  This patch corrects that.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-11-03 15:47:41 UTC

looks the same to me, error message on both is cannot fit in memory

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99897 ***