Re: GRUB2 for UEFI crashes at startup when we got 8 gigabyte of memory

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi,

Quoting address@hidden, who wrote the following on Wed, 21 Apr 2010:

> In Febryary I was testing GRUB for UEFI and noticed that it was simply crashing.
>
> See topic
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-02/msg00000.html
>
> At that time I blamed incorrect UEFI implementation on that computer (cause it 
> worked fine on another one), but now I noticed that when I took off one memory 
> stick, everything is working fine on that special computer!!!!
>
> So, it seems that GRUB2 is crashing on computers with  8 gb of memory (or more?)
>
> Is it known bug? Are there workarounds?

  Have you tried the latest GRUB2 from the Bazaar repository?  If it still 
fails there, and phcoder doesn't already have a fix for this in his newreloc 
branch, then I would consider it a bug.

 --S