Santosh Raghuram
2006-Oct-10 17:53 UTC
[syslinux] Error reported by pxelinux: Failed to free base memory, error code FF01-027E-9F6B040E.
Hey, It is some real awesome work you are doing. Thanks. I have been trying to use gpxe - pxelinux to boot Linux from a remote location. It works with pxelinux 2.02 and lower. However pxelinux 2.03 and higher return errors and booting is incomplete. Why? syslinux-3.00 gives the following dump and hence the system does not boot. Loading Linux...........................................Ready. Failed to free base memory, error FF01-027E-9F6B040E I have tried finding the cause of this error, to no avail. The syslinux website states: "A fair number of PXE implementations has problems with releasing base memory once booting is complete. This should not affect you if you're running Linux, but other operating systems, such as DOS under MEMDISK, may have less memory available than they should. PXELINUX 1.65 or higher will display a message: Failed to free base memory, sorry... ... when that happens. It should not cause problems other than the loss of some memory; usually about 64K worth. PXELINUX 2.03 or later will display an error code in conjunction with the message; reporting that error code might assist in identifying the location of the problem." I would hence like to report the error, :). Your help would be invaluable. Thanks, Santosh.