Re: gpxe and memdisk could not boot winpe diskimage

ShenQiyu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Shao,

 

The disk image is not compressed. The size is about 111M. Actual, the WINPE itself is loaded correctly(winpe boot progress show it) but the system could not startup.

 

I use the MEMDISK version 3.82. MEMDISK is loaded first in gPXE, then the initrd.

 

Further, I have notice that MEMDISK shows the disk image is loaded in different address:

 

It is at 0x8f800000, length 0x06dd1c00 with gPXE -> MEMDISK is and 0x8f800000, length 0x06dd1c00 with gPXE -> PXELINUX -> MEMDISK.

The new int13 address is at 8fc0000a and 9340000a respectively.

 

So we could see the new int13 address 8fc0000a is obviously in the range of 0x8f800000, length 0x06dd1c00 which should be the disk image in the gPXE -> MEMDISK case. But the new int13 address is out of the range of disk image in the gPXE -> PXELINUX -> MEMDISK case.

 

Is this a potential problem the int13 address in the range of disk image?

 

Thanks!

 

Paul

> Subject: RE: [Etherboot-discuss] gpxe and memdisk could not boot winpe diskimage
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:34:41 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> Good day Paul,
> 
> In regards to your "gPXE -> MEMDISK" issue, where "gPXE -> PXELINUX ->
> MEMDISK" seems to work:
> 
> Is your HDD image compressed, by any chance? I've noticed that "gPXE ->
> MEMDISK" seems to have troubles when decompressing large images. If it
> is compressed, could you please try a test without compression?
> 
> gPXE and PXELINUX certainly do provide different E820 maps, which is
> likely inevitable.
> 
> Which version of MEMDISK are you using?
> 
> Are you loading the initrd first or the MEMDISK kernel first in gPXE?
> 
> - Shao Miller

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