Re: amd64 installer (Debian From Scratch)
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
So you're saying the problem occurs once you boot your installed system
from its hard disk, rather than when you boot the install cd itself?
(The DFS problem was regarding the install cd itself, which uses grub.)
-- John
>
> /Mattias Wadenstein
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