[syslinux] Syslinux Mem= greater than 4096M

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/03/2012 04:34 PM, Kevin Sullivan wrote:
> Hi Everyone. I have a question that I have researched, but cannot find an
> answer. I was wondering if any of the syslinux guru's might have some
> suggestions for me. We use syslinux (4.04) to boot a specialized USB
> distribution of Linux that requires the mem= flag to be added to the
> syslinux.cfg file. The mem= flag is a requirement as this is a custom
> kernel distribution that uses kernel modules in a highly specialized
> manner. I can set mem= all the way up to 4096M, but at 4097 and greater, I
> get the error message of:

You really shouldn't use mem= for almost anything.  Use memmap= instead; 
it also will not have the side effects on the boot loader.

	-hpa