Comment 6 for bug 219868

Hi Leann,

I'm currently discussing this with H. Peter Anvin (the x86 boot code maintainer) by private email and have done some testing with him using the syslinux "meminfo.c32" plugin.

Latest comment from him is:

# Right... you have a system dependent on E801, and somehow E801 returns crap.
#
# I'm going to cook up a modified meminfo.c32 for you and see if we can't
# track this down.

So something that happened around 2.6.23/2.6.24 broke the way that the kernel was handling this corner case (maybe in the 32/64 bit merge) and stopped it working.

I'll report more when there is something definite from the new version that he's working on.