syslinux at tsaunders.co.uk
2015-Apr-09 16:21 UTC
[syslinux] Failed to allocate memory for kernel command line, bailing out
I am trying to add UEFI support to my existing PXE environment for kickstarting CentOS 7.0. With bios boot all is working well. I have added syslinux.efi and ldlinux.e64 from syslinux 6.03 to my tftp server and altered my dhcp server to boot syslinux.efi. I get to my usual menu fine, the server downloads vmlinuz and initrd.img fine but then bails out with "Failed to allocate memory for kernel command line, bailing out". I have tried simplifying my menu down to one option, removing all the options from my command line, tftp fetch of vmlinuz and initrd, http fetch of vmlinuz and initrd but nothing makes any difference. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to get to the bottom of this issue? The server I am trying to kickstart is a Dell Poweredge r410 and it is booting from a Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5716C) if it makes any difference. Tim
Patrick Masotta
2015-Apr-09 18:05 UTC
[syslinux] Failed to allocate memory for kernel command line, bailing out
> "Failed to allocate memory for kernel command line, > bailing out".That message comes from main.c when allocate_pages() fails. allocate_pages() is just a wrapper that calls BS->AllocatePages. Then the first thing I'd do is to test on different booting clients and see if the error is related to a particular EFI firmware. Best, Patrick
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