[wplug] Addendum: Memtest86+.bin "too big for memory?"

Jonathan S. Billings billings at negate.org
Tue Mar 14 14:47:28 EST 2006


Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> So I installed memtest86+.bin into my /boot directory and added it to
> menu.lst using 'update-grub,' which did it automatically.  When I tried
> to boot into it, i was advised it's 'too big to fit into memory'.  It's
> only 94k and the vmlinuz files I've got in there are all at least 10x
> bigger. Google found nothing with memtest86+.bin and "too big". What do
> I do?

This sounds like it might be related to this bug:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=3404

There are some suggestions in the comments.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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