Hi,

Why not have a flag on the boot ``command''? ie
boot --no-memory-size

Best regards,
-Neal

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:55:29PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Tim Riker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: prepare_0_5_95
> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:26:03 -0600
> 
> > I still feel it would be useful to be able to restrict the mem= opion
> > for idividual entries.
> 
>   Ok, then what do you think this:
> 
> 1. GRUB searches for mem= in the kernel argument(s).
> 2. If found, don't pass the option automatically (regardless of the
> value).
> 3. Otherwise, pass the option as the current behavior.
> 
> > 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.
> 
>   Thanks for your suggestion. The reason why I forced GRUB to remove
> it after parsing it was that I just didn't know if the kernel would
> ignore the option mildly. I'll get rid of the deletion code.
> 
> Okuji
> 

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