Re: Out of Memory Error

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 30.03.2011 15:27, Gus Zernial wrote:
> I can believe it's a BIOS problem, but ... 120 GB is a "large drive"?
>
>
>   
Could you try booting from external media and execute
"ls -l"
It should give you the total size in blocks as seen through BIOS.
Also how is this disk accessed? PATA or AHCI? If first you can install
GRUB with --disk-module=ata. If second, then you can do the same with
--disk-module=ahci but only in experimental. Beware that AHCI in GRUB is
alpha-quality right now.
> --- 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)
>>
>>     
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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