Syslinux - Jan 2005 - "so old bootloader ..." with syslinux-3.05 on x86_64

Hi,

I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on an AMD 64-based machine using PXE
(via DHCP and TFTP). I've managed to get the machine to load the kernel over
the network and start booting, but instead of loading the root fs from
initrd.img (that I appended as a config via pxelinux.cfg), it loads the
pre-existing rootfs on my harddisk.

At the top of dmesg is the message: "so old bootloader that it does not
support commandline?!"

I'm using pxelinux.0 from syslinux-3.05 I downloaded from sf.net dated Jan
7, 2005.

Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.
--

Richard Plana

Richard Plana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on an AMD 64-based machine using
PXE (via DHCP and TFTP). I've managed to get the machine to load the kernel
over the network and start booting, but instead of loading the root fs from
initrd.img (that I appended as a config via pxelinux.cfg), it loads the
pre-existing rootfs on my harddisk.
> 
> At the top of dmesg is the message: "so old bootloader that it does
not support commandline?!"
> 
> I'm using pxelinux.0 from syslinux-3.05 I downloaded from sf.net dated
Jan 7, 2005.
> 
> Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.
 >

This is the stock FC3 kernel?

	-hpa

Yes, the stock vmlinuz and initrd.img from FC3 x86-64. I even tried extracting
the one from their boot.iso, the FC3 isolinux/ subdirectory ... no joy.
>From my tftp server logs, I can see the initrd.img file being pulled.
Any hints? Tips on things to look out for?


-----Original Message-----
From:	H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
Sent:	Sat 1/8/2005 7:45 PM
To:	Richard Plana
Cc:	syslinux at zytor.com
Subject:	Re: [syslinux] "so old bootloader ..." with syslinux-3.05 on
x86_64
Richard Plana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on an AMD 64-based machine using
PXE (via DHCP and TFTP). I've managed to get the machine to load the kernel
over the network and start booting, but instead of loading the root fs from
initrd.img (that I appended as a config via pxelinux.cfg), it loads the
pre-existing rootfs on my harddisk.
> 
> At the top of dmesg is the message: "so old bootloader that it does
not support commandline?!"
> 
> I'm using pxelinux.0 from syslinux-3.05 I downloaded from sf.net dated
Jan 7, 2005.
> 
> Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.
 >

This is the stock FC3 kernel?

	-hpa

>> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on an AMD 64-based machine
using PXE (via DHCP and TFTP). I've managed to get the machine to load the
kernel over the network and start booting, but instead of loading the root fs
from initrd.img (that I appended as a config via pxelinux.cfg), it loads the
pre-existing rootfs on my harddisk.
>> 
>> At the top of dmesg is the message: "so old bootloader that it
does not support commandline?!"
> 
>> I'm using pxelinux.0 from syslinux-3.05 I downloaded from sf.net
dated Jan 7, 2005.
>> 
>> Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.
>>
>This is the stock FC3 kernel?

Oh ... I just found this in dmesg, as well:

initrd extends beyond end of memory (0xfffffdfb > 0x1fff0000)
disabling initrd

So it might not be bootloader-related, after all. Still don't know what the
problem is, though, so any insight would be greatly appreciated, :).
--

Richard Plana