[syslinux] Re: Does pxelinux work with >1GB RAM?

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:30:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>H. J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>>On machines with 2GB RAM, pxelinux doesn't seem to work for me. With
>>>Intel PXE, I had to limit the memory available to PXE to 768MB RAM.
>>>Has anyone tried pxelinux on machines with >= 1GB RAM? How do I
>>>limit memory to 768MB for pxelinux?
>>>
>>
>>It had been run, successfully, on machines with as much as 6 GB of RAM.
>>
> 
> 
> The problem has something to do with MB/BIOS. I have an Intel Server
> Board SE7500WV2 with 2GB RAM. If I disable the on-board Promise ATA
> RAID in BIOS, pxelinux works fine. If I enable the Promise, pxelinux
> won't work. It will download linux.0 and configure file. The machine
> will hang after pxelinux downloads the first file specified in
> configure file, which is
> 
> display pxelinux.cfg/pxe.msg
> 

The Promise ATA RAID BIOS is one of the buggiest pieces of sh*t I've 
ever seen.  It doesn't surprise me it's screwing things up, although it 
is certainly very odd.

Sorry, I don't have access to this hardware; all I can say is "avoid, 
avoid, avoid, avoid."  I keep getting bug reports about different things 
breaking on it.

	-hpa