[syslinux] pxelinux fails to load miniroot completly

[detlef oertel]

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> detlef oertel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> attached 2 screenshots of the meminfo.c32 output.
>>
>> Anything else we can do ?
>>
> 
> 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!)
> 
> First of all, I doubt that the E820 parser has seen a memory map like 
> this -- I will try to simulate this info and see what it comes up with.
> 
> What's worse is this will limit syslinux to only 29 MB of high memory, 
> even on the best of days, despite the fact that there is a gigabyte of 
> memory in the machine.  This means that your large miniroot simply 
> doesn't fit.

Hmm,
why fits (and work) the miniroot.gz with isolinux before 2.09-pre15 ?

> 
> I can't think of a sane way to work around this in the syslinux core, at 
> least not any time soon, but it is probably possible to work around it 
> in linux.c32.  I will have to carefully think about it.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 	-hpa
For information about the machine see atachment at the start of this
thread or my answer to Jeff.

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Any thing else we can do ?

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detlef oertel

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