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Re: [Xen-devel] SMBIOS problem with PXE booting

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To:	Evan Bigall <evan.bigall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] SMBIOS problem with PXE booting
From:	Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:24:16 +0000
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Hi,

At 11:25 +0700 on 05 Jan (1167996340), Evan Bigall wrote:
> When I change nothing in the config but the image to boot, and then boot 
> eb-5.4.2-rtl8139.iso (downloaded from *rom*-*o*-*matic*.net), the iso 
> boots, correctly, PXEs, tftps our kernel and ramdisk, but then if I run 
> dmidecode on the ramdisk, it looks like SMBIOS has been corrupted somehow.

Indeed.  The ROMBIOS is reporting the wrong amount of base memory 
(0x0 -- 0x9fc00), so etherboot relocates itself on top of the SMBIOS
tables (which are at 0x9f000).  The attached patch should fix it for
Xen 3.0.3.

Cheers,

Tim.

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