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

[Dennis Clarke]

On 6/26/08, Michael Schuster <Michael.Schuster at sun.com> wrote:
> Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote:
>  > I have a Asus M3A78 with 780G/SB700 chipsets and 4 GByte of memory
>  > and a AMD 64X BE-2150 processor.
>
>  [...]
>
>  > 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??????
>
>  there shouldn't be - even if you're running (or booting) Solaris in
>  32bit mode, it should at worst just ignore what it can't handle.
>
>  when you re-insert the 2GB you removed (and make sure it's properly
>  seated ...), what happens?
>
>  do you have any other OS you could boot or at least try for comparison?
>

I have had no problems with 16GB of memory.

Dennis