Re: syslinux-1.43 bug [and possible PATCH]

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>]

Neil Conway wrote:
> 
> > Have other people run into this problem and worked around it some
> > other way? (One way would be to specify mem= at the boot: prompt
> > from syslinux. Yet another way seems to be to specify mem= in
> > the syslinux.cfg file. Changing HIGHMEM_MAX seems to be the cleanest,
> > although I am not sure whether this will impact the capability of
> > syslinux to install other os'es).
> 
> I don't think "mem=" would help at all but I could be wrong.
> 

It works; both SYSLINUX and the kernel with honour it.

> My "easy" fix was to pull out a DIMM from each of our machines, leaving
> 3x256 :-)  Not elegant, but fast!

As already said, get SYSLINUX 1.44 or later...

	-hpa
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