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RE: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+



or just default to lilo altogether
unless there is some other major advantage to grub ofc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de]
> Sent: 04 August 2004 22:18
> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Boot problems with grub and 4GB+
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> grub still has problems booting on high end systems (4GB ram or
> more). With ram getting cheaper and more used by the minute this could
> affect more and more Debian installations.
> 
> (see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254798)
> 
> Given the timeframe for the release it doesn't look likely that
> upstream will fix this but. Would it be possible for D-I to default to
> lilo when it detects >2GB ram (people with this problem reported lilo
> works or grub when they remove all but 2GB ram)?
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
> 
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