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Perret Yannick <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 27 May 2005 17:29:07 +0200
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Jon Peatfield wrote:

>
>A long time ago we used to get exactly those symptoms with 386 kernels iff
>the machine had more than ~2G ram (I think), and it went away with an
>upgrade to the pxelinux.bin to v2.06 (I think).
>
>The bug was that it was loading the kernel/initrd at some address beyond
>what the boot-kernels could address (or my memory might have failed
>again).
>
>There *might* be something similar at some higher memory threshold.  Do 
>all the boxes have the same amount of memory?
>
>Before the pxelinux update we used to tediously strip memory out of 
>machines during installs...
>
>
>  
>
Hello,

I will try to see which pxelinux version I have...
Most of our boxes have 2Go of RAM, but maybe
this one is a 2.5Go one.

I will investigate in this direction.

Thanks.


Yannick Perret

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