[syslinux] pxelinux hang: problem freeing memory?

[Greg Notch]

thanks for all the help guys.

booting from cdrom and disk are fine. its just the pxeboot that hangs.

G.

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-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:56 PM
To: Greg Notch
Cc: Josef Siemes; syslinux at zytor.com; Greg Connor
Subject: Re: [syslinux] pxelinux hang: problem freeing memory?


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