I can't boot up

[goude]

Hello guys,

I am having problems booting up my machine. It boots up to the point where you can see the booting options. If I choose simply to boot in Linux I get the following error: Multiple bit ECC error occured
After that I thought OK let's do a memory check, using memtest. But I can't do that either. The error I get in that case is:
kernel (hd 0,1) /boot/memtest.bin
Error 28: selected item can not fit into memory

I looked around the net and found some other forums discussing about error 28 but I didn't really understand what they were saying.

Can somebody please help me?

Thank you all!!!

[RobinVossen]

Can you give links to the things you found we can translate that for you in a Language you can understnad.
And, well how much RAM does your PC have?

[goude]

Hey Robin,

here is the link: Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory - X86-secret.com Forums

My RAM is 2 Giga.

[RobinVossen]

Ok, umm can you drop your grub conf here?

[goude]

I run Linux (failsafe) and then went to /boot/grub but the file grub.conf is not there.

[devils casper]

Its menu.lst file in Suse.

[goude]

Thank you gasper,

Here is the file Robin, hope that helps.

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfx menu (hd 0,1) /boot/message

root (hd 0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga 0x31a resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initdr

root (hd 0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresumeedd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

kernel (hd 0,1) /boot/memtest.bin

[RobinVossen]

Ok, well I aint sure since I really dislike Grub..
But if I recall correctly you should set hd 0,1 to hd0,0 if you want hda.
0,1 points to hdb
TO change this when you are in grub use the 'e' key.
Hope that helps.

[Jonathan183]

hd0,0 is the first hard disc - first partition, hd0,1 is the first hard disc second partition ...
naming convention on attached link GRUB Manual - Naming convention

Suggest you run fdisk -l to establish partition information - you need to do this as root.
It looks from the grub info that the first partition on the hard disc is a swap partition (hd0,0 = sda1) and the second partition is root (hd0,1 = sda2).

Have you had this system running before & it has stopped booting - or has it never booted?
What version of SUSE have you loaded?

[gogalthorp]

The problem with memtest seems to be that the newer BIOS's now reserve more low memory for them selves.

Here is a descussion on the Debian bug reports that discusses the problem.

#319837 - memtest86+: does not work: wouldn't fit into memory - Debian Bug report logs

There does not seem to be an easy answer for this at this time.

The ECC error could be indication of a bad sector on the hard drive....