[syslinux] pxelinux fails to load miniroot completly

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz at cmu.edu
Tue Mar 25 11:50:37 PDT 2008


--On Tuesday, March 25, 2008 09:54:33 AM -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" 
<hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> I think I see the problem.  Everything in your memory map looks normal,
> *except* line 4 -- where you have a chunk of reserved memory in the
> middle of normal RAM, at 0x1e00000-0x1e80040 (at 30 MB!)

Yeah; that looks really odd.

> The other thing I would appreciate is as much information as possible
> about this system, as I would like to ping my Dell contacts and get some
> information.

FWIW, a 740 I have here (2GM RAM, BIOS 1.0.5) does _not_ exhibit a similar 
oddity.  I'd be interested to know what BIOS version the affected machine 
is.

-- Jeff




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