[syslinux] pxelinux / memdisk booting problem

[Michael Blandford]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Michael Blandford wrote:
> 
>> command line: initrd=ia32/sir4-up/floppy.img BOOT_IMAGE=ia32/memdisk
>> Disk is floppy, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18
>> dos_mem  =    0x9f400 (637 K)
>> low_mem  =   0xf00000 (15360 K)
>> high_mem = 0x1efe06c0 (507777 K)
> 
>              ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> This is extremely odd.  It seems like PXELINUX thinks you have 4 GB of 
> RAM, but MEMDISK thinks you have 512 MB.  I'd really like to see your 
> E820 map.  How much memory do you have in this machine?  You may want to 
> try specifying a mem=524161K parameter to see what happens.
>

Thats seems to have worked.  If you tell me how to show you my E820 map, 
I will :)

This box actually does have 512 MB.

Thanks.

Michael



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