[syslinux] pxe linux

[Baurzhan Ismagulov]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:57:47PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> 	I can't very well make out anything as it scrolls out very fast. Using the 
> Pause key, The only thing what i can see is loading Linux .....

Consider using serial console, I find it very helpful. Can you use
Shift+PgUp after the panic? Otherwise, I don't see a way to verify what
the kernel gets as a command line.


> I believe i don't see any command line:

My 2.4 kernel writes the following:

Linux version 2.4.18-1-686 (herbert at gondolin) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #3 Sun Aug 10 09:13:53 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
found SMP MP-table at 000fb530
hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 1
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=l ro root=801
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 501.147 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 999.42 BogoMIPS
Memory: 253420k/262144k available (812k kernel code, 8336k reserved, 231k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)


> 	I hope that it is not a problem with my TFTP client on the BIOS, as otherwise 
> i would have to discard the Gigabit(3C940) on the motherboard.

I think this message alone should not be a problem, the server sends the
file anyway.


With kind regards,
Baurjan.