[syslinux] PXE looping on localboot

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed May 30 11:29:29 PDT 2012


On 05/30/2012 02:24 AM, Vanush Misha Paturyan wrote:
> 
> No luck, system still loops instead of booting from the localhost. Was
> the change to STACK_TOP a random shift or is there a logic to it? I'm
> attaching an output of meminfo.c32 to this email, in case it can help.
> I also found memdump.com file (in memdump directory), with README
> claiming it can generate a memory dump. Will it be useful in any ways?
> And if yes - which address ranges to dump?
> 

The shift has some method to it... that was the lowest adress we can
realistically do on that particular version.

Syslinux 5 has a lot less real-mode code and might be able to move this
to another region of memory.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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