[syslinux] knoppix boot fail probably due to bad int 820

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 31 09:44:46 PST 2004


Fredrik Stax{ng wrote:

> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Fredrik Stax{ng wrote:
>>
>>>Knoppix says initrd extends beyond end of memory. I thing this 
>>>is the same problem as 
>>>
>>>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146350&archive=yes
>>>
>>
>>Please post the bootup messages.
> 
> 
> I saw your reply to Anthony Marshall before I saw this. I inferred that
> you do not care about buggy BIOSes, so I flashed in the latest version.
> It boots Knoppix now, but unfortunately it does not work with my new
> hard disk anymore ;-[
> 

It's not that I don't care, it's that without *lots* of debugging 
information it's hard to do anything about it.

I'll play with your memory map and see what I can do about it.

	-hpa





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