Bug 54819
Summary: | PXE won't work with over 2Gb of RAM | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | shelley palmer <spalmer> |
Component: | pxe | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i586 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-06-21 10:58:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
shelley palmer
2001-10-19 18:24:25 UTC
I tried your change to pxe-linux's download.c for the linux.0. On a dual athlon using tyan tiger 2460 motherboard. It changes it in weird ways, notably the system hangs at: Uncompressing Linux... Ok, Booting the kernel. then it just hangs - occasionally it will reboot after a while. no other effect. However, When I drop the memory to 512M and I take out that change the system boots fine from pxe but two things happen: 1. the kernel parameters passed from pxe are overwritten/garbled 2. the ide hard drive errors and won't format if I boot it from a floppy disk all works well. its quite baffling but appears to be clearly related to the pxe loader (linux.0) in the build tree of the rpm. Any ideas on where to go for an update to this tree or for more information? thanks I can fix most of these problems by using the pxelinux bootstrap from a more recent pxelinux. the problems just vanish at that point. Also updating the 3com mba rom to 4.30 doesn't hurt things and gives you more verbose information on the screen |