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authorhpa <hpa>2002-06-15 05:24:25 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>2002-06-15 05:24:25 +0000
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@@ -302,6 +302,17 @@ varying degrees of severity. Please see:
if known.
+ ++++ KEEPING THE PXE STACK AROUND ++++
+
+Normally, PXELINUX will unload the PXE and UNDI stacks before invoking
+the kernel. In special circumstances (for example, when using MEMDISK
+to boot an operating system with an UNDI network driver) it might be
+desirable to keep the PXE stack in memory. If the option "keeppxe"
+is given on the kernel command line, PXELINUX will keep the PXE and
+UNDI stacks in memory. (If you don't know what this means, you
+probably don't need it.)
+
+
++++ CURRENTLY KNOWN PROBLEMS ++++
The following problems are known with PXELINUX, so far:
@@ -309,10 +320,6 @@ The following problems are known with PXELINUX, so far:
+ Requires a TFTP server which supports the "tsize" option.
+ The error recovery routine doesn't work quite right. For right now,
it just does a hard reset - seems good enough.
-+ There may be funnies with memory management. The PXE spec has no
- decent way of telling it to free up all memory and unchain any
- interrupts; it allows the base stack to be unloaded, but not the
- UNDI driver.
+ We should probably call the UDP receive function in the keyboard
entry loop, so that we answer ARP requests.
+ Boot sectors/disk images are not supported yet.