2013/4/16 Michael Brown <[email protected]> > On Monday 15 Apr 2013 22:44:43 Joshua C. wrote: > > Your patch fixed my problem. I tested this several times with files as > big > > as 25MB (f18 kernel and initrd) and those worked fine. The system booted > > without any problems. Here is my configuration patch (I know it has > > redundancies but currently I don't have much time to fix it, and it still > > works!). > > Glad the patch works for you. Unfortunately it can't be applied as a > general > solution. If PMM allocation fails (which is not uncommon), then iPXE has > no > way to shrink itself, so we have to be pessimistic in reporting our runtime > size. > > Is there a way to test at runtime if PMM works? If so maybe this can help?
> > I cannot see the pci bios version?!? Maybe this is because it have > > a custom ipxe string? > > Most likely because you have BANNER_TIMEOUT set to zero; the ROM banner > probably disappears before you have a chance to see it. > > Michael > I'll test later today with a git-version and post the pci-version. I've been wondering of the manufactorer can do something about this 128kb-orom-limit? I'll explain to them what caused the problem as well as why they cannot reproduce it at their side. On the other hand I have an efi-bios which should be capable of overcomming the limitations of the old pc-bios. Any ideas if and how the manufacturer can help (if they're willing to do so, of course)? -- --joshua
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