I recently upgraded my motherboard to 3G of RAM (Intel DG965OT with Core 2 duo running FC6 x86_64 + some devel stuff) and grub started complaining about "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory" when I tried to boot Linux. However: - windows boots fine - linux boots if I pass "mem=1G" on the command line - linux boots if I tell grub "uppermem 262144" before loading the kernel and initrd After looking into it a little, it seems grub is confused about loading the initrd. It states that it has 572k of low memory, and 3101876k of upper memory, so far so good (no signed vs. unsigned long or anything). Then it tells me it will load the initrd: Linux-initrd @ 0xbd318000, 0x3043d8 bytes This should be fine, since my memory map says I have memory from 0x100000-0xbd62d000, and 0xbd318000 + 0x3043d8 = 0xbd61c3d8, so the initrd should have room. But at this point, instead of happily booting, grub gives me the "Error 28" message above. I looked at the grub sources a little to see if I could figure out what was going on, but my eyes started to bleed and I couldn't even make it give me a printf, so I figured I'd file a bug instead in the hope that someone else has navigated grub enough to spot what's probably a trivial error. Thanks, Jesse
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Just installed F8 + updates and I no longer see this problem.