[indiana-discuss] 200805 GRUB unable to boot after install

[Bo-Erik Sandholm]

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.

- Bosse
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