[syslinux] RE: More on Problems with PXELinux and ramdisk not loading

Richard Plana RPlana at zicorp.com
Sun Jan 9 23:34:29 PST 2005


2.06-pre1 works well on my system. initrd now loads.

Thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From:	H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
Sent:	Sun 1/9/2005 11:20 PM
To:	Richard Plana
Cc:	SYSLINUX at zytor.com
Subject:	Re: More on Problems with PXELinux and ramdisk not loading
Richard Plana wrote:
> so old bootloader that it doesn't support commandline?!
> Linux version 2.6.7-1.667 (bhcompile at dolly.build.redhat.com) (gcc 
> version 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)) #1 Tue Nov  2 14:50:10 EST 
> 2004
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000c0000000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> No mptable found.
> initrd extends beyond end of memory (0xfffffdfb > 0x1fff0000)
> disabling initrd
> ...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> As I mentioned the machine has 512MB (0x20000000 bytes) physical RAM. It 
> seems the BIOS is reporting some "reserved" chunks of "memory" (dunno if 
> it's really physically there) that can't be used and something (the 
> kernel or bootloader) keeps trying to put it at the top of physical 
> memory space.
> 
> Any insights on what I should do?

Okay, this means it's my fault.  Bother; I have fixed it in 2.06-pre1. 
You may be able to work around the problem by specifying mem=0x1fff0000, 
or just get 2.06-pre1.

	-hpa






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