Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: > 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.
I think it unlikely that your conclusion is correct. I've got 4Gb of ram in my workstation and my laptop, both of which boot osol2008.05 happily. As far as I can determine, the grub that is delivered with 2008.05 is the same grub that is delivered with Solaris Express CE. I think it more likely that you have either - a dodgy stick of ram, or - some other problem. If you add -k to the kernel$ line in grub then instead of a reboot you'll get dumped into kmdb - at that point you can do some investigating, start by looking at the output from ::msgbuf. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
