[KLUG Members] Grub: Error 28 ( Unable to boot from hard drive, can boot from floppy)

Sanjay Chigurupati members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:35:52 +0530


Hi,
got the problem fixed. I had 40 GB hard drive and the default grub version
that comes with RH 8 does not support large disks. Upgrading GRUB took care
of it.

Sanjay



                                                                                                               
                      John Bridleman                                                                           
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* Sanjay Chigurupati (Sanjay.Chigurupati@lntinfotech.com) wrote:
>
> I am able to boot from floppy. From hard disk, I get error in grub: error
> 28: selected item can not fit into memory.

I'm no GRUB expert but check this out:
 - http://www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/archive/Mar2003/msg00010.html

> P.S: ( If this email is in html, please excuse me.I am sending via web
> client as I am at home. The Lotus notes version that we have right now
does
> not allow us to set preferences in the web client and I am stuck with it
> till they upgrade. If I was at office, I could use Lotus Notes directly.
> Needed to get this fixed. sorry for the html)

Looks fine to me!
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