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bug #12516: 'Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory' with xen.gz 2.0.5

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Thu 31 Mar 2005 10:34:53 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Installation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Sam Johnston
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Release:  CVS20050331
Reproducibility:  Every Time Planned Release:  None

Mon 30 May 2005 12:34:28 PM UTC, comment #5: 

RTFM - care to be more specific? And how is it that a valid boot image being declared 'bad' and unable to fit into memory is not a bug?

Anonymous
Mon 30 May 2005 12:12:27 PM UTC, comment #4: 

RTFM.

Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji>
Group administrator
Thu 07 Apr 2005 09:35:52 AM UTC, comment #3: 

I have had an opportunity to reboot the workstation and found that while it does not work from the command line, it does boot correctly. I can only assume that this is because memory that would be free at boot time isn't once you have an operating system up and running.

Whether or not this is a bug, it cost us countless hours so the error could probably afford to be more useful.

Anonymous
Wed 06 Apr 2005 03:46:35 PM UTC, comment #2: 

xen-2.0.5 binaries installed onto a local workstation (Dell Optiplex GX280) gave a similar error:

grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz
   [Multiboot-elf, <0xb7b69000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad)

Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)

Anonymous
Wed 06 Apr 2005 03:43:33 PM UTC, comment #1: 

xen built from source gives a similar error:

grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz
   [Multiboot-elf, <0x4028d000:0x3ef5c:0x360a4>(bad)

Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory

Anonymous
Thu 31 Mar 2005 10:34:53 AM UTC, original submission:  

I am unable to setup xen 2.0.5 (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/) on a colo Athlon 2000+ box per the following error. The binaries were downloaded from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/downloads/xen-2.0.5-install.tgz and I have tried both with xen.gz and xen (gunzip xen.gz).

   GNU GRUB  version 0.95  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
 lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
 completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=vga
 [Multiboot-elf, <0xb72f2000:0x3ef3c:0x360c4>(bad)

Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory

grub>

If I compile a more recent version (0.96 and CVS20050331) I get a Segmentation Fault:

    GNU GRUB  version 0.96  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
   lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
   completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> kernel /boot/xen.gzSegmentation fault

The partition (hd0,0) is an ext3 partition currently mounted rw on an 80Gb IDE drive.

I have not yet recompiled xen from scratch but do not believe it to be a problem with xen itself as this is a public release that is known to work elsewhere.

I do not have access to the physical hardware as it is in another country. Perhaps lspci is useful:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 90)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

Anonymous

 

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Attached Files
file #2808:  xen.gz added by None (116KiB - application/octet-stream - xen.gz 2.0.5)

 

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Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
2005-05-30 okuji StatusNone Invalid
    Open/ClosedOpen Closed
2005-03-31 None Attached File- Added xen.gz, #2367
    Carbon-Copy- Added samjie --AT-- gmail --DOT-- com

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