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author | hpa <hpa> | 2002-06-15 05:24:25 +0000 |
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committer | hpa <hpa> | 2002-06-15 05:24:25 +0000 |
commit | 172f1e3aae1ce8848ad4bb9574d1837d75b67ff5 (patch) | |
tree | ee31d6aeb3b33e3ae2b229feaa432edac9ec709e /pxelinux.doc | |
parent | 7cc2b27d059d8e06f0216c002868654f5f4a2acc (diff) | |
download | syslinux-172f1e3aae1ce8848ad4bb9574d1837d75b67ff5.tar.gz |
Merge in changes from SYSLINUX 1.75syslinux-2.00-pre4
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diff --git a/pxelinux.doc b/pxelinux.doc index 6ee17776..04842f18 100644 --- a/pxelinux.doc +++ b/pxelinux.doc @@ -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. |