On 9 Oct 2002, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > Someone threw a bunch of money at a vendor and we wound up with: > > Intel Server Board SE7500WV2 with Intel E7500 chipset > 2 gig mem > Adaptec 2110 raid controller (also tried adaptec 3410 raid and > onboard Adaptec SCSI but still no joy) > 2X Intel Pentium 4 1.80AGHz processors > all for install in SR2300 rack chassis > > > Redhat 7.3 installs fine, but on reboot after install we get: > > Linux... > > and nothing else. It just hangs there forever. > > 8.0 also installs fine but after grub screen, it hangs with error: > > Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory > > I tried passing mem=2048M and mem=1024M to the boot image, thinking that > it was failing to probe the memory, but it didn't help. > > > I'd really hate to see this become a windoze box. > Thanks for any clues. What was the grub-entry before you edited it? Specifically was there any mem=X option appended to the line specifying which kernel to use? If so then try editing that grub-entry to remove the mem=X entirely. Oisin Feeley
