Syslinux - Jan 2002 - Max tftp boot size?

Hi;
 In http://syslinux.zytor.com/history.php, you mention:

PXELINUX, ISOLINUX: Correctly handle files larger than 65535
          blocks (32 MB for PXELINUX, 128 MB for ISOLINUX.)

However, I am having issues with trying to make any compressed
initrd.gz
>32 meg work with pxelinux.  I am using "atftpd" as the server,
with
--no-blksize specified to disable the blksize command.  The symptons are
anything ranging from a failure to uncompress the ram drive to file system
consistency failures on the e2fs formated ramdrive.

We're looking at the thought of net booting all of our servers and running
the OS completely off the ram disk :-)  However, to do that, for what we
want, we need to bloat that initrd.gz to about 45 meg, if we're gonna go
this route.

Thanks for any pointers...

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 Jason Fesler  <jfesler at gigo.com>  http://gigo.com/resume.html
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  deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Jason Fesler wrote:
>>
> --no-blksize specified to disable the blksize command.  The symptons are
> anything ranging from a failure to uncompress the ram drive to file system
> consistency failures on the e2fs formated ramdrive.
> 

There has been some problems with ramdisks and recent kernels.  In 
general, I would recommend against using very large initrds, instead use 
a small initrd to initialize a ramfs filesystem.


	-hpa