Bug#241239: grub: doesn't boot memtest86 and memtest86+

[Robert Millan]

reassign 241239 memtest86
severity 241239 wishlist
retitle 241239 memtest86: make it multiboot compliant
thanks

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:21:27PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> memtest86 and memtest86+ are both meant to be booted directly like a
> Linux kernel. This used to work until recently, when grub started
> giving "Error 28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory" in response
> to the kernel command.

Hi Marc,

In principle, GRUB only supports booting images compliant with the multiboot
standard and, as an exception, a few kernels including Linux.

If you want to boot memtest86 using GRUB you'll have to get memtest86 fixed
to support multiboot. I'm therefore reassigning this to memtext86. You can
learn more about the multiboot standard from the info documentation in
`grub-doc' package ("info multiboot").

Otherwise if you still want GRUB to support another non-multiboot image
you'll have to take this up with upstream. But I don't think Okuji will
accept this change even if you provide a patch.

-- 
Robert Millan

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