Re: Can't boot with 550K of memory

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Krzysztof Leszczynski <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Can't boot with 550K of memory
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 21:32:52 +0100

> I tried several boot loaders and found that PXE version of SYSLINUX
> just worked :-) but all others including bpbatch didn't. There must
> be something in SYSLINUX that makes strange architectures work.

That depends on which version of Linux you use. Older Linux cannot be
located at other than 0x90000, so you cannot boot such a kernel on
lower memory machines. Recently, H. Peter Anvin added support for
putting a kernel and its command-line at arbitrary addresses into the
Linux/i386 boot protocol, so there is no surprise that syslinux
supports the new feature. Unfortunately, GRUB doesn't utilize the
feature at the moment, and it is not trivial to add support for lower
memory machines.

Okuji