[syslinux] memdisk issue with gpxelinux.0

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Apr 26 15:50:14 PDT 2009


Pierre wrote:
> Ramdisk at 0xdfb00000, length 0x0016bd50
> 
> The floppy image is correct and its size is 1440 K (1474560 bytes) not
> 1455 K as indicated above
> 
> I have the same results on 2 servers whith different architectures
> 
> Can someone tell me about the exceedings 15696 bytes (and what mistake
> I have made) ?
> 

This sounds like a gPXE issue; clearly it is reporting the wrong length
to MEMDISK (length 0x0016bd50 = 1490256 rather than 1474560).

Since the length is wrong, MEMDISK gets the geometry wrong, too.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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