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  1. Bug #625294
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 625294

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: Unable to boot maverick daily images -- RAM not detected

When I tell one of the systems in question to boot directly from the hard disk, this doesn't happen. It only happens when attempting to go through pxelinux and boot from the local disk. The output looks like this (with some boring bits elided):

  TFTP prefix: /cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/maverick-server-i386/
  Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default ok
  Booting from local disk...

  Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.3.27
  Copyright (C) 1997-2008, Intel Corporation

  CLIENT MAC ADDR: ... GUID: ...
  CLIENT IP: ... MASK: ... DHCP IP: ...
  GATEWAY IP: ...

This repeats several times, and then the "It appears your computer has less than ..." message appears. I therefore suspect that the PXE stack's local boot function doesn't work properly, and as a result we are recursing through the PXE stack until it runs out of low memory.