Your (monitor?)and GEFORCE 2 MX display card are new models, which are not recognised by Redhat 7.2 ....Even by Redhat 8 ... Your problem also seem to be the same...what i faced. U might have experienced during installation it says (monitor?) and video card not probed and asks u to select....
>>error 28: selected item doesn't fit into memory. this error message shows u selected Grub bootloader. However using lilo ...u would only be able to use terminals and perform all functions. New versions RedHat 9, Mandrake 8- -9.1 will work..... try that. if u have debian try that too and let us know what happens.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Lech Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 5:43 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] trouble booting into GNU/LINUX > GLUG Meeting on 13th July, 4pm at KReSIT, IIT Campus, Powai. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Hello linuxers, > > I recently upgraded my system to an Athlon XP 2000+ , 256 mb DDR RAM , > 80 GB HDD , Asus A7N266-VM motherboard with a built in GEFORCE 2 MX > display card. > > I installed red hat 7.3 on the new system (dual boot with windows 98 > se running on the primary partition). However when i try to boot into > linux i get the following error message : > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > root(hd0,8) > > file system type is ext2fs partition type 0x83 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda9 hdc=ide-scsi > [linux-bzimage,setup-0x1400,size=0xff8b0] > > error 28: selected item doesn't fit into memory. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Thinking that it could possibly have something to do with the location > on the HDD where linux was installed , I reinstalled red hat 7.3 on an > old 4.3 GB HDD as the only OS ; still getting the same error though. > > Could someone please pin point the cause of the problem and suggest a > way of getting around it. > > -- > Thanking You'll, > Lech. > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
