grub – Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Diagnosing a corruption issue just before Christmas, I used “memtest86+” as usual. However instead of booting, the PC just said: “Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory”.
Fortunately this is covered by [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319837 this Debian bug]. It’s still not been fixed, in the meantime you can grab this [http://www.smop.co.uk/files/memtest precompiled] memtest86+ ELF binary (not the usual x86 boot sector). You need to boot it slightly differently, my grub entry is:
title Memtest (ELF – 4GB fix)
root (hd0,0)
kernel –type=netbsd /memtest
boot
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under Linux.
Comments: 1
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Comment from Julio César
Time: Tuesday 3 May, 2011, 08:45
Thanks for the precompiled memtest86+ link.
It works great via PXE.
Julio César.
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