| Summary: | grub exits with error 28 selected item cannot fit into memory | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Dan <mothbitten1> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Donny Davies (RETIRED) <woodchip> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
try grub-0.93.20030118 does that work better? maybe wont, but give it a try ;) No, sadly it didn't work. sorry, you might try posting this upstream to the GNU people then. i dont have any idea what is wrong. no idea dunno where this came back from , the bugzilla is messed up. |
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