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

H. J. Lu hjl at lucon.org
Mon Oct 7 12:12:49 PDT 2002


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:51:06AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> H. J. Lu wrote:
> > 
> > I don't have much a choice on that one. FWIW, it works with Intel PXE
> > if I limit the memory to 768MB RAM in Intel PXE.
> > 
> > I noticed that pxelinux goes wrong after the configure file is
> > downloaded. I think pxelinux may overwrite some memory used by
> > Promise BIOS.
> > 
> 
> Or the PXE *stack* is.  It would be interesting to find out that INT 12h
> reports inside the PXE stack, but otherwise I really can't see how there

How do I do that?

> is anything I can do about this.

I looked at Intel PXE. It did something strange with stack before
calling the main PXE function.


H.J.



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