[syslinux] Memdisk Question

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/25/2011 07:26 AM, Robert McLay wrote:
> 
>  Hi Guys,
> 
>  I'm currently using pxelinux 4.03 and memdisk to boot a DOS based
>  floppy we use this software for training purposes to run a basic
>  hardware check.
> 
>  It does not seem to like systems which have more than 1GB of RAM,
>  which is some of the machines our company are now starting to
>  see.
> 
>  Is there a way I can ask memdisk or PXE linux to use only xxx MB
>  of RAM, e.g. 256MB...?
> 
>  Company compliance dictates we run this app, even though it has
>  been surpassed by the syslinux HDT.c32 module.
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Robert
> 

Is it the app that's having problems, or memdisk?  Either way, stock
memdisk can't do this, but it would be a fairly trivial modification to
add an option to reserve all memory areas above a certain point.

	-hpa