Good evening all, I recently wrote to the list about a problem with grub: ''Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory''. I am still having the same issue, atlhough I have done more troubleshooting since then. I have rebuilt the offending machine from scratch with Debian stable and installed the requisite packages from testing: gcc 3.3.5-3 The GNU C compiler bridge-utils 0.9.5-2 Utilities for configuring the Linux 2.4 brid python 2.3.5-1 An interactive high-level object-oriented la python-dev 2.3.5-1 Header files and a static library for Python python-twisted 1.3.0-8 Event-based framework for internet applicati zlib1g 1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime zlib1g-dev 1.2.2-3 compression library - development libcurl3 7.13.1-2 Multi-protocol file transfer library, now wi libcurl3-dev 7.13.1-2 Development files and documentation for libc I still get a similar error: grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz [Multiboot-elf, <0x4028d000:0x3ef5c:0x360a4>(bad) Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory I''ve also tried to install the xen-2.0.5 binaries on my local workstation - a Dell Optiplex GX280, but get the same thing: grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz [Multiboot-elf, <0xb7b69000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad) Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 04) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04) 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) 0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC''97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) The following is the bug report I submitted against grub figuring it may be a problem with multiboot, but the more troubleshooting I do, the more I believe it to be a compatibility issue or a problem with Xen itself. I hope someone can provide some more information about what''s going wrong as I''d really rather use Xen than one of the alternatives. Thanks, Sam I am unable to setup xen 2.0.5 (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/) on a colo Athlon 2000+ box per the following error. The binaries were downloaded from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/xen-2.0.5-install.tgz and I have tried both with xen.gz and xen (gunzip xen.gz). GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga [Multiboot-elf, <0xb72f2000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad) Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory grub> If I compile a more recent version (0.96 and CVS20050331) I get a Segmentation Fault: GNU GRUB version 0.96 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> kernel /boot/xen.gzSegmentation fault The partition (hd0,0) is an ext3 partition currently mounted rw on an 80Gb IDE drive. I have not yet recompiled xen from scratch but do not believe it to be a problem with xen itself as this is a public release that is known to work elsewhere. I do not have access to the physical hardware as it is in another country. Perhaps lspci is useful: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 90) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> The following is the bug report I submitted against grub > figuring it may be a problem with multiboot, but the more > troubleshooting I do, the more I believe it to be a > compatibility issue or a problem with Xen itself. > > I hope someone can provide some more information about what''s > going wrong as I''d really rather use Xen than one of the alternatives.Have you tried booting one of our xen.gz and vmlinuz-2.6.11-xen0 files from one of our install tar balls? We''ve never seen this before. We''ve used a number of different grub versions, including 0.92, 0.93 and 0.95. Ian _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Sam Johnston wrote:>grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz >[Multiboot-elf, <0x4028d000:0x3ef5c:0x360a4>(bad) > >Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory > >I''ve also tried to install the xen-2.0.5 binaries on my local >workstation - a Dell Optiplex GX280, but get the same thing: > >grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz >[Multiboot-elf, <0xb7b69000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad) > >Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memoryWas the first one 2.0.5 as well? Can you perform the following on one of the failing xen images and give us the output: gunzip xen.gz objdump -h xen gzip xen Regards, James _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
As it turns out even though grub doesn''t like Xen from the command line, it will boot into it nonetheless, presumably because memory that would otherwise be available at boot time isn''t after you''ve got an operating system up and running. Sam On Apr 6, 2005 4:59 PM, Sam Johnston <samjie@gmail.com> wrote:> Good evening all, > > I recently wrote to the list about a problem with grub: ''Error 28: > Selected item cannot fit into memory''. I am still having the same > issue, atlhough I have done more troubleshooting since then. I have > rebuilt the offending machine from scratch with Debian stable and > installed the requisite packages from testing: > > gcc 3.3.5-3 The GNU C compiler > bridge-utils 0.9.5-2 Utilities for configuring the Linux 2.4 brid > python 2.3.5-1 An interactive high-level object-oriented la > python-dev 2.3.5-1 Header files and a static library for Python > python-twisted 1.3.0-8 Event-based framework for internet applicati > zlib1g 1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime > zlib1g-dev 1.2.2-3 compression library - development > libcurl3 7.13.1-2 Multi-protocol file transfer library, now wi > libcurl3-dev 7.13.1-2 Development files and documentation for libc > > I still get a similar error: > > grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz > [Multiboot-elf, <0x4028d000:0x3ef5c:0x360a4>(bad) > > Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory > > I''ve also tried to install the xen-2.0.5 binaries on my local > workstation - a Dell Optiplex GX280, but get the same thing: > > grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz > [Multiboot-elf, <0xb7b69000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad) > > Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory > > # lspci > 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O > Controller (rev 04) > 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04) > 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express > Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) > 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset > Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) > 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) > 0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) > 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) > 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) > 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) > 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) > 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) > 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) > 0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. > 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC''97 Audio Controller (rev 03) > 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC > Interface Bridge (rev 03) > 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) > 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA > Controller (rev 03) > 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) > SMBus Controller (rev 03) > 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme > BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) > > The following is the bug report I submitted against grub figuring it > may be a problem with multiboot, but the more troubleshooting I do, > the more I believe it to be a compatibility issue or a problem with > Xen itself. > > I hope someone can provide some more information about what''s going > wrong as I''d really rather use Xen than one of the alternatives. > > Thanks, > > Sam > > I am unable to setup xen 2.0.5 > (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/) on a colo Athlon > 2000+ box per the following error. The binaries were downloaded from > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/xen-2.0.5-install.tgz > and I have tried both with xen.gz and xen (gunzip xen.gz). > > GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename. ] > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga > [Multiboot-elf, <0xb72f2000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad) > > Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory > > grub> > > If I compile a more recent version (0.96 and CVS20050331) I get a > Segmentation Fault: > > GNU GRUB version 0.96 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename. ] > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> kernel /boot/xen.gzSegmentation fault > > The partition (hd0,0) is an ext3 partition currently mounted rw on an > 80Gb IDE drive. > > I have not yet recompiled xen from scratch but do not believe it to be > a problem with xen itself as this is a public release that is known to > work elsewhere. > > I do not have access to the physical hardware as it is in another > country. Perhaps lspci is useful: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] > 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 90) > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) > 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) >_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel