memory problem

[Jeff McCright]

Yes, and it also comes on Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4!!

Jeff McCright
jeff.mccright at southernunionco.com

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From: kclug at kclug.org
To: kclug at kclug.org
Cc: jeff.mccright at southernunionco.com
Subject: Re: kclug - RE: memory problem

In any case, you should all switch to the new 'grand unified bootloader' aka GRUB.
Those of you who have been annoyed by lilo not letting you find out what the boot
instructions are to edit would like the new interface.  If you screw something up
and have to change the boot instructions (like telling it it has more memory than
it actually has) you can fix it pretty easily.

GRUB comes on the mandrake 7.1 distro and I expect that it will become more popular
with the other distros soon since it's a GNU project.

Here's the website:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html

Regards,

Tony Hammitt

Ben Webb wrote:
>
> Right.  Dave's problem, as I understood it, was that the BIOS only saw 32MB of
> memory.  In that case, telling the kernel that there is 128 would cause it to
> attempt to access memory that has not been addressed by the BIOS, and would thereby
> crash the kernel.  In your case the address space did exist, the kernel just didn't
> recognize it by default.
>
> >I had a compaq workstation with 128meg of ram.  Bios saw 128 meg but linux
> >would not see more than 64m, reguardless of what kind of memory or how I
> >arranged the simms in the box.  In the end I put in at the end of loadlin.exe
> >mem=128M
>
> >That took care of everything!
>
>         Mike
>
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