From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5BU5-0005fi-F8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:35:57 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53582 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5BU2-0005fG-NG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:35:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5BU1-0006AE-JX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:35:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:46222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5BU1-0006A2-Ew for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:35:53 -0400 Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so2061620wwb.30 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:35:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=krcFGKvABwPOX6NzLlJrbB1OL4Xir7AvvpDkpFu3gxk=; b=kccD8S5QjrwehS9yQwF8aY4OuRrhrdFUopQF8noM7/DwxSz4S3VcQQBs7PXj7f9wng yE5/yvwgCafgkCwRgGfnEHxZSLKKB0WgdVxAFOTA62MtdfMudORTeMa3RQVMEp/jSnFP w2zbL0aqp1BgYh0fw0sjnv4iELLFW07teJHWM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=jSeZiX8xsLsPrcXZsUia70J9wzhybMots3ZHm3J6guM92A+mayRDutiha34RvYbVNe XO9iRbc8xgjafNbOzW53ZhoMKcUPqwjykFN2FsQtRk1IuMp5KwORVqyOcf+0ZOX9gvly I7BIxr7Zyaswvyj1Q87fSIPn5i+2/wvKYqlM4= Received: by 10.227.140.77 with SMTP id h13mr2271060wbu.217.1301553352278; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs03.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o6sm460492wbo.3.2011.03.30.23.35.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9420BC.10007@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:35:40 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110303 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <242020.13556.qm@web63505.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <242020.13556.qm@web63505.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA137C2A10EA012619DD25655" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 Subject: Re: Out of Memory Error X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:35:55 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA137C2A10EA012619DD25655 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 30.03.2011 15:27, Gus Zernial wrote: > I can believe it's a BIOS problem, but ... 120 GB is a "large drive"? > > > =20 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=3Data. If second, then you can do the same with --disk-module=3Dahci but only in experimental. Beware that AHCI in GRUB i= s alpha-quality right now. > --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Jordan Uggla wrote: > > =20 >> From: Jordan Uggla >> Subject: Re: Out of Memory Error >> To: "The development of GNU GRUB" >> Cc: "Gus Zernial" >> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:00 PM >> 2011/3/29 Gus Zernial : >> =20 >>> Thanks for your reply. First of all, the error is "Out >>> =20 >> of disk", not >> =20 >>> "Out of memory", my bad >>> =20 >> "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. >> >> --=20 >> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) >> >> =20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigA137C2A10EA012619DD25655 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk2UIMMACgkQNak7dOguQgnpdQD8DS452xttoCaT/0Jg+H1tI2bo siSbwp2i8K+1T7ashtgBAJhTnJt9xYxwxAeaSKXTNTRxu9Dbg7Qpf/VyCn5zncQn =uAp0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA137C2A10EA012619DD25655--