Fw: [syslinux] Issue with pxelinux

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 13 13:30:58 PDT 2005


Andrew Wray wrote:
> 
> I realize that this is not a problem in the latest version of pxelinux, but
> I'd like to understand the cause of this problem, as if its a BIOS/PXE ROM
> issue, I'd like to get those fixed, but if its a pxelinux problem,
> understanding it would help keep the problem from being re-introduced in
> the future.
> 

This problem was caused due to a memory buffer overlap in those versions 
of PXELINUX.  There is now code in the compile which should catch that 
at compile time.

	-hpa




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