Re: Out of Memory Error

[Gus Zernial]

I can believe it's a BIOS problem, but ... 120 GB is a "large drive"?


--- On Tue, 3/29/11, Jordan Uggla <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Jordan Uggla <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Out of Memory Error
> To: "The development of GNU GRUB" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Gus Zernial" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:00 PM
> 2011/3/29 Gus Zernial <address@hidden>:
> > Thanks for your reply. First of all, the error is "Out
> of disk", not
> > "Out of memory", my bad
> 
> "Out of disk" is a very different error from "Out of
> memory". "Out of
> disk" means that you have a buggy BIOS which can't handle
> large drives
> properly. To work around this create a small /boot/
> partition near the
> beginning of the drive.
> 
> -- 
> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)
>