[syslinux] pxelinux hang: problem freeing memory?

[Greg Notch]

trying to set up a IBM 4500R with pxelinux 1.67 with an Intel eepro(ish)
NIC. Got DHCP (ISC 2.0) and atftpd working. pxelinux downloads the boot.msg,
kernel and initrd, but when it tries to load the kernel we get:

boot:
Loading 7.1/vmlinuz.............
Loading 7.1/initrd.img..............
 ready.
Failed to free base memory, sorry...
[system hangs]

I tried enabling debugging in pxelinux.asm, but that provided no further
debugging output. Based on information on the website, we saw that freeing
memory was a relatively recent addition to the codebase, so we tried version
1.64, and that just hung with the "ready." prompt.

This is our pxelinux.cfg/default file. We tried many permutations of the
file with various append options, but all ended with the same result as
above. This is the simplest iteration with no boot menu, and very minimal
kernel options:

default vmlinuz

label vmlinuz
  kernel vmlinuz
  append initrd=initrd.img

label local
  localboot 0

This is the inital boot screen before it loads the kernel and hangs:

Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 3.0.03
Copyright (C) 1997-2000, Intel Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 03 47 78 59 3A  GUID:
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
CLIENT IP: 10.28.34.158  MASK: 255.255.252.0  DHCP IP: 10.28.33.136
GATEWAY IP: 10.28.32.254

PXELINUX 1.67 2002-02-03  Copyright (C) 1994-2001 H. Peter Anvin
UNDI data segment at:   00096E40
UNDI data segment size: 4D30
UNDI code segment at:   0009BB70
UNDI code segment size: 1F40
PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9BB7:0106
My IP address seems to be 0A1C229E 10.28.34.158
ip=10.28.34.158:10.28.33.136:10.28.32.254:255.255.252.0
TFTP prefix: /tftpboot/
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/0A1C229
[etc, etc, eventually it loads the default file which points it at boot.msg,
vmlinuz, initrd]

please tell me I overlooked something silly in the documentation or am doing
something else foolish :)

G.

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