I have a Asus M3A78 with 780G/SB700 chipsets and 4 GByte of memory and a AMD 64X BE-2150 processor.
After making sure that the SATA disk that I installed to was connected to the first connector for the SATA controller I was able to install OS200805. (If not on that connector I get warning about corrupt file system at boot) The boot of the cdrom is problem free, After installation and reboot the GRUB menu is OK. I added the -v parameter to get tracing of whats going on. But when I boot I get a immidiate reboot back to BIOS without any printouts. After testing with nexenta as an alternative (Same problem there) My last desperate attempt to solve the problem I removed one of the 2 GByte memory sticks, Imidiate success!!!!! So my conclusion is that the 200805 GRUB CANNOT handle a large memory, is this a 32 bit limitation?????? I want/need to run with more that 2 GB memory as I want to use zfs and virtualbox on the machine. Is there a newer version of grub available? if so, I need a command by command description on how to upgrade the installed GRUB. - Bosse This message posted from opensolaris.org
