'setup' fails with err 28, then passes next time

[Brett Russ]

Hello,

Below is a log of an attempted installation while my system is up and 
running RH7.3.  The first time I run this it fails as shown below with 
the error 28 (Selected item cannot fit into memory) and the next time I 
run it there are no problems.  Nothing changes in between runs.  I have 
attached straces of both the failing case and the good case.  I am now 
instrumenting grub code to differentiate which of the many places for 
this error to originate but I am very curious to know if this is a known 
bug that has been fixed in 0.93?

Thanks
Brett

BEGIN LOG:

    GRUB  version 0.91  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

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grub> root (hd0,7)
 Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0xfd

grub> setup --stage2=/var/local/grub/stage2 --prefix=/local/grub (hd0)
 Checking if "/local/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/local/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/local/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /local/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is 
not fat
al)
 Running "embed /local/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0,7)"... failed (this 
is not f
atal)
 Running "install --stage2=/var/local/grub/stage2 /local/grub/stage1 d 
(hd0) /l
ocal/grub/stage2 p /local/grub/grub.conf "... failed

Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory

grub> quit

grub-strace.tgz
Description: application/compressed