[syslinux] Pxelinux - gpxe problem.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 10 22:39:36 PDT 2006


Santosh Raghuram wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> It is some real awesome work you are doing. Thanks.
> 
> I have been trying to use gpxe - pxelinux to boot Linux from a remote
> location.
> 
> It works with pxelinux 2.02 and lower. However pxelinux 2.03 and higher
> return errors and booting is incomplete. Why?
> 
> syslinux-3.00 gives the following dump and hence the system does not boot.
> 
> Loading Linux...........................................Ready.
> Failed to free base memory, error FF01-027E-9F6B040E
> 

I forwarded this post to the Etherboot list with an explanation of the 
error message.  It would be helpful to them if you could post 
information about what particular version and configuration of Etherboot 
you're using.

Additionally, please try a current version of pxelinux, 3.20 or later.

	-hpa




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