Re: pxeboot: heap full?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:06:56PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:24:14PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> 
> > Has there been a regression in PXE bootstrap?
> 
> A version from a couple of weeks ago works for me. Can you try a slightly
> older version?

Can you send me your two-weeks old copy? :-)

> > That seems like an extraordinarily small heap, if a kernel is
> > supposed to fit in there.
> 
> The kernel doesn't go on the heap, it's loaded into extended memory.
> There are buffers in the heap, eg: for decompression.

FWIW, I decompressed the kernel that I was using, and the shortfall
on the heap increased correspondingly.

Dave

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