Re[2]: amd64 installer (Debian From Scratch)

[Corin Langosch <corinl@gmx.de>]

Hi!

i now switched from lilo to grub (because lilo is not
contained in the adm64 distro?) and exactly the same
errors occurs and i cant boot :-(
my system is 2x246 opteron with 4gb ram.

Corin

Wednesday, May 26, 2004, 3:11:21 PM, you wrote:
JG> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:46:10PM -0700, Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D. wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> After I reconfigured BIOS setting, now I cannot reproduce the previous errors.
>> But now I get more serious one.  It even refuse to go to booting sequence:
>> 
>>   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

JG> Strange.  This looks very much like a bug in Grub.  What BIOS settings
JG> did you reconfigure?

>> Thank you for your info. about LVM, I will check it, and examine the
>> applicability to my case.  If you are interested in non-ATA SCSI, then you must
>> not include it to the kernel.  As I found out, ATA-SCSI and SATA /dev/hde are
>> mutually exclusive, naturally.

JG> Which one is the preferred method of using SATA?

JG> -- John