Hi there I came across this problem with PXELINUX over the last couple of days. The computer in question is a Compaq Prosignia 300 Server which I am using as a X Terminal. The Linux kernel only detects 16m of ram in the computer yet it has 80Meg. When you specify the mem option to kernel it seems as if pxelinux isn't putting the initrd image in the correct memory location and thus it won't even bootup. This setup was working before I decided to upgrade ltsp from 1.x to the latest version. Before I had a specific kernel compiled for this machine. Anyone got any idea's about which options can be used to overcome this. Thanks Jeffrey Borg
Jeffrey Borg wrote:> Hi there > > I came across this problem with PXELINUX over the last couple of days. The > computer in question is a Compaq Prosignia 300 Server which I am using as a X > Terminal. >It's not a PXELINUX problem.> The Linux kernel only detects 16m of ram in the computer yet it has 80Meg.Early Compaqs had this particular problem with the BIOS. Make sure you do *not* have an "ISA memory hole" or "15-16MB memory hole" configured in your BIOS.> When you specify the mem option to kernel it seems as if pxelinux isn't putting > the initrd image in the correct memory location and thus it won't even bootup. > > This setup was working before I decided to upgrade ltsp from 1.x to the latest > version. Before I had a specific kernel compiled for this machine. > > Anyone got any idea's about which options can be used to overcome this.mem=80M -hpa