Tobias Hintze:
	on machines with more than 4GB RAM
	there is an issue resulting in:
	Error 28: "selected item cannot fit into memory"

	the bug is in grubs bugtracker (including this patch) since 2004
	but still not in 0.97:
	https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9954

diff -Naur grub-0.97~/stage2/char_io.c grub-0.97/stage2/char_io.c
--- grub-0.97~/stage2/char_io.c	2005-02-01 21:51:23.000000000 +0100
+++ grub-0.97/stage2/char_io.c	2007-08-06 19:35:37.711924190 +0200
@@ -1175,13 +1175,13 @@
 #endif /* ! STAGE1_5 */
 
 int
-memcheck (int addr, int len)
+memcheck (unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
 {
 #ifdef GRUB_UTIL
-  auto int start_addr (void);
-  auto int end_addr (void);
+  auto unsigned long start_addr (void);
+  auto unsigned long end_addr (void);
   
-  auto int start_addr (void)
+  auto unsigned long start_addr (void)
     {
       int ret;
 # if defined(HAVE_START_SYMBOL)
@@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@
       return ret;
     }
 
-  auto int end_addr (void)
+  auto unsigned long end_addr (void)
     {
       int ret;
 # if defined(HAVE_END_SYMBOL)
diff -Naur grub-0.97~/stage2/shared.h grub-0.97/stage2/shared.h
--- grub-0.97~/stage2/shared.h	2004-06-19 18:40:09.000000000 +0200
+++ grub-0.97/stage2/shared.h	2007-08-06 19:35:43.856274336 +0200
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
 int nul_terminate (char *str);
 int get_based_digit (int c, int base);
 int safe_parse_maxint (char **str_ptr, int *myint_ptr);
-int memcheck (int start, int len);
+int memcheck (unsigned long start, unsigned long len);
 void grub_putstr (const char *str);
 
 #ifndef NO_DECOMPRESSION