Thanks for the tip. This is what I was afraid of. So where can I GET a bare bones kernel image? I'm poking around on the Debian ftp site but not seeing anything. Do I have to create my own bin file?
/Owen On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 02:15, Emile van Bergen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:51:03AM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:04:55AM -0500, Owen B. Mehegan wrote: > > > Node: 00B0D0A42B88 > > > DHCP... > > > TFTP............................ > > > File transfer error: Image file too large for low memory. > > > > are you sure, that the error message means the memory for you laptop. > > How many ram is available in this beast? :) > > > > While playing with tftp and network boot, I'll got this error message on > > many machines (i386, 3com or intel nic). The machines have 32MB and up > > to 512 MB ram, so a small 1.44MB floppy should be small enough to fit > > into the memory. > > Ah. Welcome to the lovely 16-bit boot process of Intel machines. > > <lecture> > > Intel boxes boot up in real mode, in which 8086-style addressing is > enabled. In this mode, you don't have 32-bit memory offsets, but rather > 16-bit segment addresses that are shifted 4 bits to the left before > adding a 16-bit offset address, forming a 20-bit address. > > In short, until something switches the CPU to protected mode that uses > segment registers in a wildly different fashion, software can only > address the first megabyte of memory. The PC normally has up to 640 kB > of RAM in that first megabyte; the rest contains part of your > framebuffer and some ROM. So that's all you can access during the boot > process. > > </lecture> > > So if the NICs boot ROM contains only real mode code, 1.44 MB will > indeed /not/ fit into memory. Try a bare bones kernel; 512 Kb should > definitely work. > > Cheers, > > > > Emile. > > -- > E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
