[syslinux] memdisk problems

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 6 10:59:22 PST 2003


Dinu Zabrauteanu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a compaq machine with compaq smart array raid
> and with 3com 905C 10/100 TXM network card (supporting
> PXE). I have setup an dhcp and tftp server for serving
> pxelinux.0 , memdisk and my dos images along with
> linux images (vmlinuz, initrd). Booting with vmlinuz
> and initrd is working fine on any machine but when I'm
> booting with memdisk along with dos image the result
> is:
> 
> 1706: Extended BIOS Data Area Memory Has Been
> Corrupted
> Array Controller Intrerrupt 13h BIOS Cannot Continue.
> System halted.
> 
> Memdisk / dos image was working on other machine with
> different hardware (ASUS mother board with no raid but
> with the same network card - 3com) with no problems.
> 
> Please let me find some explaination for this.
> Thank you,
> 

My best guess would be that the 3Com PXE stack overwrote some memory 
which belonged to the EBDA, and that the cciss controller freaked out as 
a result.  Does this happen if you try PXELINUX 1.76?

	-hpa




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