[syslinux] Embedding COM32 modules into pxelinux.0

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun May 3 15:43:08 PDT 2009


Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Aside from it being part of the GSoC CLI rewrite project ("internal
> module"), has anyone been playing with it?
> 
> I just hacked up my copy of pxelinux and it somewhat works:
> hello.c32 and fancyhello.c32 work fine, meminfo.c32 "works", rosh.c32
> doesn't.
> It's likely i broke something somewhere while taking shortcuts thru
> pxelinux. This might explain why more
> complex modules fail. The basic idea seems to work tho.
> 
> Is there a size limit for pxelinux.0 (32kb, 64kb) ?
> 

There is ... around 32K.  The build should fail if you run out of space.

	-hpa

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