I built a desktop using the Intel D850MV motherboard with a Pentium 4/1.60 GHz CPU and 256MB RDRAM (4 x 64MB/PC600 RIMM cards). The desktop board came with BIOS version P05 (MV85010A.86A.0011.P05.0111141737) preinstalled.
I installed two Seagate ST340810A 40-GB hard drives. The primary master drive had a Windows 95 (LBA) partition for Windows Me, and the primary slave drive was partitioned into 10GB EXT3 for Linux and 30GB for Windows Me. The bootloader was GRUB 0.91, for switching between a RedHat 7.3 boot and a Windows Me boot.
Everything (RedHat 7.3 and Windows Me)worked perfectly.
At 18:00 26/07/02 +0530, RAM (133MHz ?) wrote:
Can anybody advise me on what is going on? What steps should I take to correct the situation. I'd prefer to keep the new Intel BIOS P14. One compelling reason being that I don't know how to roll back to the old Intel BIOS P05.
Didnt the bios flasher give you any option for backing up your old bios? If it did and you do have a backup then the process is exactly like flashing to newer bios.
BTW who is the manufacturer of your bios?
quasi
----- Original Message ----- From: "B. J. Ram Rao" ramrao@bajirao.com Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
I may not be correct but, this is what I conclude from your problem. Check it out [snip]
I installed two Seagate ST340810A 40-GB hard drives. The primary master drive had a Windows 95 (LBA) partition for Windows Me, and the primary slave drive was partitioned into 10GB EXT3 for Linux and 30GB for Windows Me.
i. e. your Linux is on your 2nd disk ( hdb)
GRUB stopped booting Linux with the following boot screen.
root (hd1,0)
how it comes to hd1, it should be hd2 ( just my guess ) as your linux is on 2nd disk
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3 hdc=ide-scsi [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xfa203]
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Press any key to continue...
However Windows Me still boots perfectly. Even upgrading to GRUB 0.92 did not help!
Can anybody advise me on what is going on? What steps should I take to correct the situation.
1 clear the mbr by - fdisk/mbr 2. boot into linux (with bootable disk ) & edit the grub file to correct the paths. I haven't used grub, so I can't help u much in that but don't worry somebody else will definitely help u.
Other way is..... uninstall grub. clear mbr & make a clean new grub installation
I'd prefer to keep the new Intel BIOS P14. One compelling reason being that I don't know how to roll back to the old Intel BIOS P05.
Don't roll back just go ahead. But before, be sure that u have installed BIOS properly ( with no errors) Check it out once again if u have any doubt
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On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "B. J. Ram Rao" ramrao@bajirao.com Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
[snip]
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3 hdc=ide-scsi [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xfa203]
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Press any key to continue...
However Windows Me still boots perfectly. Even upgrading to GRUB 0.92 did not help!
Can anybody advise me on what is going on? What steps should I take to correct the situation.
The grub manual says:
28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory This error is returned if a kernel, module, or raw file load command is either trying to load its data such that it won't fit into memory or it is simply too big.
Grub loading by BIOS is complete, GRUB is now booting your kernel, but it might be that whatever the kernel is trying to load is too big for the available memory size. Is this a custom kernel with initrd loading a bunch of modules etc. ? I am not sure whether this will cause something like this.
If not, and assuming that your grub config was okay, it might be a BIOS and grub compatibility issue or it might have to do with some BIOS settings, specially ones that affect the way hard disks are accessed. A little safe playing around with BIOS settings might help, (Not manual setting of HDD geometry, see other things such as raid support etc.)
1 clear the mbr by - fdisk/mbr 2. boot into linux (with bootable disk ) & edit the grub file to correct the paths. I haven't used grub, so I can't help u much in that but don't worry somebody else will definitely help u.
This may not be useful as GRUB loads, and gives error when transferring control to kernel.
[snip]
I'd prefer to keep the new Intel BIOS P14. One compelling reason being that I don't know how to roll back to the old Intel BIOS P05.
Just use older BIOS flash disk, with explicit overwriting of BIOS option selected, normally present as a menu option as the flash program boots.
HTH,
Rajesh
--- Rajesh Deo rajeshdeo@earthlink.net wrote:
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "B. J. Ram Rao" ramrao@bajirao.com Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
[snip] At Zenith we have been working with tonz of Intel Desktop boards.....nd believe me, if u were a gnu-linux enthusiast, u would prefer to keep away frm these boards even if the vendor would thrown in a lovely package.
The support for various hardware is attrocious....also, kernel 2.4.18> onwards i have noticed that most if the Intel Drivers have made if OUT of the kernel Source Tree. Some of the driversi recvd from Intel haven't been released to the Comunity at large.
This is what we infer after frustrating experiences with Intel Desktop boards.
Trevor Warren
Trevor Warren
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Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3
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On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 06:21, Sameer Shinde wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "B. J. Ram Rao" ramrao@bajirao.com Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:00 PM
[snip] At Zenith we have been working with tonz of Intel Desktop boards.....nd believe me, if u were a gnu-linux enthusiast, u would prefer to keep away frm these boards even if the vendor would thrown in a lovely package.
The support for various hardware is attrocious....also, kernel 2.4.18> onwards i have noticed that most if the Intel NIC Drivers have made if OUT of the kernel Source Tree. Some of the driversi recvd from Intel haven't been released to the Comunity at large.
This is what we infer after frustrating experiences with Intel Desktop boards.
Trevor Warren
Trevor Warren
[snip]
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb3
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