Bug#588293: grub-pc: fails to allocate memory so nothing can be booted (on an old compaq laptop)

Tue Jan 11 11:24:37 UTC 2011

Hi there,

On Sat, January 8, 2011 11:27 pm, Vladimir 'Ï†-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:

> Please try the attached patch

Thanks - giving it see if I can get it to build now.

Might be futile though - I switched to grub-legacy which
can boot the 486 kernel but then I found that it OOPS's
trying to unpack the initramfs - I suspect 32MB just isn't
enough these days.. ;-(

cheers,
Chris
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