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Re: [opensuse] GRUB error - can anyone help please?
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:54:08 +0100 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611251650530.19685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 02:11 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

>
> > grub>initrd /initrd
>
> This comes up with an error, "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory"
> which is a bit strange as I have 1.5GB of RAM and even right at the moment I
> have 58.5MB free.

|28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory
| This error is returned if a kernel, module, or raw file load
| command is either trying to load its data such that it won't fit
| into memory or it is simply too big.


Check that file, perhaps it is broken somehow. Usually, "/boot/initrd" is
a symlink, so check the link and the destination. Also, you can try to
expand it on a temporary dir, it is gzipped.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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