gbura...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
It may be a recent regression because we have a reports of successful
boot in such configuration
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00179.html and
neighbour threads).
Be sure that grub is compiled with -mcmodel=large. You can also try
disable usage of >4GiB memory by adding
#define MCMODEL_SMALL
to kern/efi/mm.c
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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