Comments on: Some tips to (re)install grub on an HP ProLiant server

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:15:40 +0000

Thanks. This was very helpful.

By: JimmyV

JimmyV — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:10:24 +0000

Somehow not all of the first line showed up it should be

/sbin/grub –batch /dev/null 2>/dev/null
device (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
EOT

By: JimmyV

JimmyV — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:09:11 +0000

There is an easier way where you don’t need to edit any files. This works great in a script, but can be done on the command line as well

/sbin/grub –batch /dev/null 2>/dev/null
device (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
EOT

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:45:48 +0000

Thx a lot also saved me loads of time trying to install Grub on Gentoo with an HP ProLiant DL380 G5. I can’t belive that this bug has not been fixed.

Cheers Simon

By: tonio

tonio — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:23:07 +0000

Thanks a lot, save my time too :)

By: John Baxendale

John Baxendale — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:52:36 +0000

Thanks for this - dead handy and saved me lots of messing about!

By: Morten Slott Hansen

Morten Slott Hansen — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:59:17 +0000

I have the exact same problem - however I have still not found a solution. I have tried several initrd files and get the dreaded error 28 each and every time.

What exactly is it that I need to change in the kernel ?

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:42:45 +0000

Thanks, this tip was a lifesaver. I had EXACTLY the same problem and the fix worked perfectly.

– Steve

By: Marc Nozell

Marc Nozell — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:02:57 +0000

Matias,

The line: “error 28: select item cannot fit into memory” is the error message you need to follow up on.
I’d poke around your kernel configuration to make sure it can support that large memory.

-marc

By: Matias Breunig

Matias Breunig — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:38:37 +0000

Tank you… this install de grub but after boot it show this message:
root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type Ox83

kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 init=linuxrc udev doscsi
[ Linux -bzImage,setup=0×1e00,size=0×22688e]
initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.14-gentoo-r2

[Linux-initrd@0xdfe8b000, 0×157141 bytes]

error 28: select itemcannot fit into memory

press any key to continue…

I have an 2 x 3.2 Xeon x96_84 with 4 x 1Gb RAM and Smart Array (RAID 5)