Hi guys, I am trying to install Solaris 10 11/06 on a new box from CDs that are known to be good. I used this set to install Solaris 3 other times on other boxes.
I am getting an error when GNU Grub version 0.95 (637k lower / 65526k upper memory) tries to boot the installer. module /boot/x86.miniroot Error 28: Selected item can not fit into memory. I searched and found many people reporting this problem but no solutions. There is a bug that was reported over a year ago here http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatab...bug_id=6387379. I also got the error 28 on other boxes when I tried to install Solaris and was not able to boot it, but that was with earlier versions. After 11/06 came out I was able to install and run it fine. But I still get this error on the new box. I also tried SolarisExpress build 52 x86 and I'm getting the same error. Here are some dmesg from OpenBSD and Slackware machines I have running on the box that will not boot Solaris/Solaris Express: OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006 .. cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 599 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 670646272 (654928K) avail mem = 603004928 (588872K) Linux version 2.6.17.13 (root at tree) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 Sat Sep 9 01:11:49 CDT 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fd800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000040fd800 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000028000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 640MB LOWMEM available. Any ideas? Thanks, Rand This message posted from opensolaris.org
