[syslinux] Size limit for initrd in PXELINUX?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 22 13:37:34 PDT 2002


Duetsch Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> well the system starts up just fine, the Intel Boot Agent (Version 4.0.17)
> gets its IP address from the DHCP and then it continues as follows:
> 
> PXELINUX 1.76 2002-08-27 Copyright (C) 1994-2002 H. Peter Anvin
> UNDI data segment at:   000862F0
> UNDI data segment size: 94B0
> UNDI code segment at:   0008F7A0
> UNDI code segment size: 2020
> PXE entry point found (we hope) at 8F7A:0106
> My IP address seems to be C0A80004 192.168.0.4
> ip=192.168.0.4:192.168.0.1:192.168.0.1:255.255.255.0
> TFTP prefix:
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C0A80004
> ...
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/C
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default
> boot: linux
> Loading vmlinuz-2.4.9-31................
> Loading initrd.gz..........................
> 
> Depending on how big the initrd.gz-file is, the system then behaves as
> described earlier.
> 

This looks normal.  I don't think this has anything to do with the 512K
memory issue.  This might be an issue with the memory overwrite bug just
described; please try 2.00-pre9.
	
	-hpa





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