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List:       ltsp-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Help: Booting very large RAMDisk.
From:       "Jason A. Pattie" <pattiejaltsp () pcxperience ! com>
Date:       2001-06-28 18:55:54
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Try using PXELinux.  It comes in the syslinux package.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/

Justin_Hamilton@HomeDepot.com wrote:

> 
> I have a RAMdisk that is 32Meg uncompressed, 9Meg gzip'd.
> 
> It contains my entire OS, and can be booted from disk just fine and it runs
> entirely in RAM.
> 
> I am now trying to PXE boot it using bpbatch, which I've had lots of success
> with before, but am getting:
> 
> ERROR: Not enough extended memory to load Linux ramdisk.
> 
> bpbatch is reporting 15296K of extended memory, and this box has a total of
> 64Mb.
> 
> Does anyone know how to tell bpbatch to allocate 32Mb of extended memory, or is
> there a better boot loader available to me that will get around this problem.
> 
> Any solution I use must not require hard coded ip's in the boot file as I will
> want to run this on lots of different individual systems in their own routed
> subnets.
> 
> A DHCP server is available so the best solution will have to get any IP info
> from it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Justin Hamilton
> 
> 
> 
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Jason A. Pattie
ltsp@pcxperience.com


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