Re: amd64 installer (Debian From Scratch)
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 May 2004, John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> > > > Booting 'Boot vmlinuz-2.6.6amd64'
> > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6amd64 root=/dev/ram0
> > > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x264713]
> > > > initrd /opt/dfsruntime/initrd.dfs
> > > > [Linux-initrd @ 0xdbe3a000, 0x1a6000 bytes]
> > > > Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
> > >
> > > Strange. This looks very much like a bug in Grub. What BIOS settings
> > > did you reconfigure?
> >
> > Just wanted to add that I've just been hit by this too, and I can't find
> > any bios settings to change. This with the 20040606 2.6 debian-installer
> > mini.iso (which works fine to install an hp DL145 except that you have to
> > fix the console-data package).
>
> That thing doesn't use Grub, does it? I wonder what boot loader it does
> use, and why it seems to effect only some amd64 machines?
That thing installed grub, otherwise I wouldn't get "Error 28: Selected
item cannot fit into memory" from grub when trying to boot.
/Mattias Wadenstein
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