[syslinux] pxelinux 2.11 unable to mount root fs

[H. Peter Anvin]

Quinn wrote:
> 
> Is ext2 support compiled into the kernel and not as a module?  ext3 is 
> dependent on ext2.
> 

It's not; it is dependent on jfs however.  It's also rather unusual to 
use ext3 for an initrd (journalling on a transient medium doesn't make 
much sense.)

I suspect the problem in this case is that he crossed the 512 MB limit. 
  If the ramdisk limit is configured to be 512 MB, *or* if he runs out 
of memory during the uncompress, this will fail.

You need at least 2x the memory of the initrd.

	-hpa