Ubuntu
grub package

  1. Bug #9096
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 9096

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Nathan Myers (ncm) wrote :

The failure is occurring with a system installed from the released 4.10 image.
Exact text is

  ...
  initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-amd64-k8-smp
     [Linux-initrd @ 0xdbb77000 0x469000 bytes]

  Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory.

This occurs with any amd64 kernel. (I haven't tried any 386 kernels.)
Adding boot options "mem=6G" or "mem=8096M" allows booting to proceed
normally.

Hardware is a dual Opteron 2.2GHz, Tyan motherboard, 8G RAM, Broadcom
gigabit ethernet, SII SATA disk, Nvidia 5200 video.