[syslinux] pxelinux hang: problem freeing memory?

[Greg Notch]

> The 'Failed to free base memory'-Message is quite usual. There's
> some PXE function to free the used memory, but on almost all
> boards this doesn't work. After this control is handed over to
> the just loaded kernel image, so the next thing that usually
> follows here is the first message from the kernel: 'uncompressing ...'.

nope, kernel doesnt appear to load at all.

> Which kernel version do you use? Could you try to get some recent 2.4
> kernel? Does it work (i.e. does the kernel boot - it won't work without
the initrd I suspect...) without the initrd? Where do these
> kernel and initrd images come from? Which kernel version is this?
> From the name it seems to be some 7.1 version (Suse? RedHat?).

we tried several different kernels and initrds, some homebrew, some from the
pxelinux directory on the redhat 7.1 disc, others from the kickstart
distributions, etc. All were based on RedHat 7.1 distributions. All had the
same results.

any ideas? i think i might try the EtherBoot stuff and see if I can't make
that work.

G.

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