Re: Can't boot with 550K of memory

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

I'm sorry for my lazy response.

From: Krzysztof Leszczynski <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Can't boot with 550K of memory
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:33:49 +0100

> Nevertherless GRUB iss still my favourite, especially with
> strange architectures. I think that PXE bootrom occupies the
> memory, because the problem doesn't exists when GRUBbing from
> HDD, only when I use pxegrub. I don't know how to hide PXE
> ROM, but I saw that feature in bpBatch. Perhaps there's a way
> to hide the rom just before booting.

You are right. pxegrub should have code that restores resources
consumed by a PXE ROM. The API is well-documented in the PXE
specification, so I think it wouldn't be difficult to implement that
code basically. The reason I say "basically" is that I hear that not
all PXE ROMs follow the spec completely. Thus, I guess that
try-and-errors would be necessary for the investigation.

Any volunteers?

Okuji