Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78436
after installation, can't boot with USB CDROM (empty) plugged in
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:39 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 Description of problem: I can't boot the system after installation if the USB CDROM drive is still plugged in, but no disk is in the drive, or the drive is not shut. It works okay with an empty USB floppy drive attached, or if there is a disk in the USB CDROM drive. I only saw this on the ThinkPad X24, not on the ThinkPad T30 that I had available to test on. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install from USB CDROM 2. take out CDROM and reboot (leaving CDROM drive plugged in) 3. get error that selected item cannot fit into memory. Actual Results: this error appeared on screen after the grub splash screen: Booting 'Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1154a] Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory Expected Results: booting normally. Additional info: Again, I only saw this on the X24, not the T30. But I didn't isntall from USB CDROM on the T30, as it has an internal one. So it could be something to do with the memory size on the machines, or it could be differing levels of USB support, although I don't think that is the case, I can check.
It's mostly a BIOS bug in that there's a lot less low memory available for the boot loader to use. CVS grub works around this by making large changes to the way kernel images are loaded. This should hopefully be going into rawhide soon.
0.93 is released and 0.93-1 should be making its way to rawhide soon *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73586 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.