Re: grub Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory

[Sam Johnston <samjie@gmail.com>]

Ian,

I don't think so - I've downloaded the following package:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     14164447 Mar 10 20:38 xen-2.0.5-install.tgz
4b57dcb1a0d15628573c0d0a117cfa6d  xen-2.0.5-install.tgz

Which contained the following xen:

434c2fc2d1e6fcecc1d76f1a844f2837  xen
f80edd6b0d06f2edababf7a96a87fdf7  xen.gz

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       258120 Mar 31 00:57 xen
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       118971 Mar 31 10:00 xen.gz

I've tried both with and without compression but get error 28 in both
circumstances.

I am tempted to get building again. I trust it's nothing to do with my
using an Athlon processor. I'm using a debian grub package compiled
from cvs:

[root@blacknight boot]# /usr/sbin/chroot /boot /bin/bash
root@blacknight:/# dpkg -l grub
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  grub           0.95+cvs200406 GRand Unified Bootloader

I've tried with 0.96 too:

    GNU GRUB  version 0.96  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> kernel /boot/xenSegmentation fault

This looks somewhat more evil... I've also downloaded and compiled
grub2 from CVS but am yet to work out how it works - grub-emu dosen't
like the grub commands and there's not much in the way of
documentation for it.

Thanks,

Sam

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:34:08 +0100, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>  >    GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> >
> > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first
> > word, TAB
> >   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB
> > lists the possible
> >   completions of a device/filename. ]
> >
> > grub> root (hd0,0)
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >
> > grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga
> >   [Multiboot-elf, <0xb72f2000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad)
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Not sure where this address comes from, but its way bigger than I've
> ever seen. It's usually 0x100000. Are you sure your xen.gz isn't
> corrupt? Did you build it yourself?
> 
> Ian
>