Re: amd64 installer (Debian From Scratch)
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, John Goerzen wrote:
> 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?
Yes.
> (The DFS problem was regarding the install cd itself, which uses grub.)
Ah, sorry, misread this problem report then.
/Mattias Wadenstein
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