Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sat, January 8, 2011 11:27 pm, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Please try the attached patch Dropping that patch into the debian/patches directory doesn't change anything in the builds I did last night, so I tried to apply the patch by hand but it won't apply.

Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Samuel
On Wed, January 12, 2011 10:15 pm, Chris Samuel wrote: Dropping that patch into the debian/patches directory doesn't change anything in the builds I did last night, so I tried to apply the patch by hand but it won't apply. Ignore that please, the new packages you've prepared no longer

Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Samuel
Hi there, On Sat, January 8, 2011 11:27 pm, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Please try the attached patch Thanks - giving it see if I can get it to build now. Might be futile though - I switched to grub-legacy which can boot the 486 kernel but then I found that it OOPS's trying

Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Samuel
On my Toshiba Libretto 70CT Pentium notebook with 32MB of RAM I see this on my lsmmap: base_addr = 0x10, length = 0x1f2, type = 0x1 ..and yes, I have this same issue with Squeeze. This is with grub-pc 1.98+20100804-11 after debootstrapping an install after removing the harddisk.

Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2011-01-08 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 01/08/2011 12:58 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: On my Toshiba Libretto 70CT Pentium notebook with 32MB of RAM I see this on my lsmmap: base_addr = 0x10, length = 0x1f2, type = 0x1 ..and yes, I have this same issue with Squeeze. Please try the attached patch This is with grub-pc

Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2010-11-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/07/2010 02:12 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100706-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i When trying to boot linux, I get this error message: error: cannot allocate real mode pages And, when trying to boot memtest86+, I is informed that error: too small lower

Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

2010-07-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100706-1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i When trying to boot linux, I get this error message: error: cannot allocate real mode pages And, when trying to boot memtest86+, I is informed that error: too small lower memory (0x9910 0x0) The same problem is reported in