[syslinux] Re: Does pxelinux work with >1GB RAM?
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 8 11:05:48 PDT 2002
H. J. Lu wrote:
>
> I found the problem. Personally, I believe it is a bug in pxelinu. For
> one thing, 0x500 to 0x7c00 is reserved in PXE 2.1 spec. However, it is
> not the real problem. pxelinux has
>
> absolute 5000h ; Here we keep our BSS stuff
> ^^^^^^^^
> Why leaves a hole in memory?
>
It makes the addresses match the ones of SYSLINUX.
The Promise BIOS is broken, and scribbles on memory it doesn't own. End
of story.
-hpa
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