[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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