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Re: amd64 installer (Debian From Scratch)



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?

> 
> Anyone with clues on how I can get the system to boot? This is currently
> what's keeping us from running debian-amd64 on our new cluster.
> 
> /Mattias Wadenstein



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