[syslinux] comboot+PXE stack

Pawel Oleksik oleksik at awa.mat.agh.edu.pl
Tue Nov 30 03:26:55 PST 2004


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:22:06PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >For the IP address you probably care more about the ACK (2) than cached 
> >reply (3), since the latter might come from the standalone PXE server as 
> >opposed to the DHCP server.
That is important, thanks.

> In addition, and I forgot this: real-mode utilities can only access the 
> bottom 1 MB of memory, which is not where your COM32 program runs.  You 
> have, however, a "bounce buffer" in low memory, guaranteed to be at 
Thanks God (and you, Peter, of course) that com32 can be used!
But on the other hand, it seems to me that Murali's menu system is 
prepared to work with com16.  How can I combine it with com32?

If I had any other problems I'll ask on the list again.

best regards
p.o.




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