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rayman

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Registered: 2010-09-09

Posts: 37

Grub error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory

I installed arch, systemrescuecd, and trinity rescue kit on a usb stick. I used the mbr arch installed, grub 0.97, and edited the menu.lst to boot all os'es on the usb.

SystemRescueCD provides an os with all kinds of "rescue" tools, but also other tools like GAG(gag.sourceforge.net/index.html), Memtest86, FreeDos etc, which can be booted from the bootloader.
But, when I try to boot GAG, Memtest86, or FreeDos, grub gives me an error saying "error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory". According to grub, my lower memory is 630K, and my upper memory is about 3.4GiB. The GAG "kernel", is 24.7 kb, and the GAG initrd is 267.8 kb.

This is not really arch related, I know, but still, if you can help me, I'd be very thankful. Google doesn't seem to help me on this one.

stefanwelte

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Registered: 2012-06-15

Posts: 10

Re: Grub error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory

I installed arch, systemrescuecd, and trinity rescue kit on a usb stick. I used the mbr arch installed, grub 0.97, and edited the menu.lst to boot all os'es on the usb.
This is not really arch related, I know, but still, if you can help me, I'd be very thankful. Google doesn't seem to help me on this one.

Maybe following helps, for FreeDOS it helped me:
Source: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK
On some systems you may receive an "error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory" message despite the physical memory being far larger than the requirements of the OS in the image. In this case, try adding an appropriate "uppermem <memsize>" statement to your grub configuration

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: Grub error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory

This topic is over six years old, and the poster hasn't been on the forums in over four years. Please don't necrobump.

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