Bug 116311
| Summary: | Grub refuses to load initrd claiming it does not fit in memory. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Aleksey Nogin <aleksey> |
| Component: | grub | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | avi, bojan, dkl, garrett.mitchener, hvtaifwkbgefbaei, notting |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-10-02 18:55:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 150224, 207486 | ||
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Description
Aleksey Nogin
2004-02-19 22:54:04 UTC
Hmmm... I wasn't noticing this problem on my box when I was doing test installs on Friday. Will look further. Do you have >= 4GB of memory? As I said, this machine has 16GB. Woops, I can't read today. Passing mem=4096M (or less) should work. In fact, mem=999999999M works, oddly enough. Worked around in grub-0.94-3.... I still think the kernel is being bogus. Confirming, WFM with grub-0.94-3 Reopening. This bug is now occuring in latest trees of FC6-Test3 on x86_64 with
>4GB ram. Entering mem=<4G in the kernel cmdline args allows the machine to boot
properly.
Can you see if this still happens with grub-0.97-12 ? *** Bug 207045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 206876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Appears to work (0.97-12) on my HP dc-7600 with 2.5 GB or RAM. Previously, I had to specify "uppermem 2000000" to get it going. After reading these comments, I added mem=4096M to the kernel command line in grub.conf. Now grub boots properly, no complaints about initrd. *shrug* (This is on a dell precision 690 with 4GB of memory, x86_64, fc6 test 3, grub-0.97-12, various kernels.) This should be fixed back with 0.97-12 I have Intel DQ965GF motherboard (version CO96510J.86A.5493.2006.1102.1728) and Pentium D CPU. With 512 MB grub works (boots Linux kernel 2.6.19 and memtest.bin OK). With 1024 MB grub does not work (boots Linux kernel 2.6.19 but with memtest.bin I get "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory."). I made .iso which I boot from PATA CDRW, and my other disk is 160 GB PATA hd. I haven't had floppy drive for 8 years, so I can't tell would grub work from a floppy. What do you have to say about the patch to memcheck() ? http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?3404 I have grub-0.97-13. |