True, but the bug effects older kernels now. I install a new grub, which
I need for 2.4 and it will pass the 5gig option to old kernels by
default which will then get modded with 4 gig and be not right.
I still feel it would be useful to be able to restrict the mem= opion
for idividual entries.
Note, I also ususally hack out the 2 lines that remove the vga= option.
This allows me to check for it in /proc/cmdline in scripts after boot.
Note that the Caldera install leaves this as default, but passes 2
identical vga= options so that the second will remain.
Thanx for all the excellent work! The netboot stuff looks very
promising. I mean to be testing this soon.
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
>
> From: Tim Riker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: prepare_0_5_95
> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:26:24 -0600
>
> > I expect we need a way to turn the mem= option on and off for individual
> > boot entries.
>
> In the stable release of Linux, you can override the option just by
> appending the same option with your favorite value. In some pre-2.4
> versions, you can't, but I assume that it is a bug in Linux and it
> will be fixed soon.
>
> Okuji
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