[syslinux] pxelinux hang: problem freeing memory?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Greg Notch wrote:

> just tried it with a 2.4.16 kernel, no dice.
> 
> #strings vmlinuz-lammy18 | grep 2.4
> 2.4.16-lammy18 (root at lammy.notch.org) #1 Thu Jan 24 20:01:20 EST 2002
> 
> any ideas on the root cause? it looks to me like the .cant_free function
> never returns, which would explain why it never loads the kernel:
> 
> .ok:
>                 mov [BIOS_fbm],ax
>                 ret
> 
> .cant_free:
>                 mov si,cant_free_msg
>                 jmp writestr
> 


No, it tailcalls writestr which returns to the caller.

The root cause is probably something having to do with your system.  Does
booting from media other than the network (floppy, CD-ROM, etc) work?

	-hpa