I boot via loadlin (sorry if I was supposed to mention that first time).
So must these go as 'kernel options' there? Is there any way I can
install lilo if I can get a partition (say about 30M) under the 1023rd
cylinder?
Thanks,
-Karthik.
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you use lilo, add to lilo.conf:
>
> append = "mem=128m"
>
> rerun lilo. Next time you boot it'll try to use 128m. If it doesn't
> crash, you really do have 128m. Most video cards have their own memory,
> which just gets a frame buffer in the hardware address space, typically
> at 0xf000000 or so. If it really uses system memory, I think the X
> server will have to get it from the kernel to share it with the card, so
> the kernel would start with the whole amount. Some BIOSes arrogate 1-4m
> unto themselves, so you might have to account for that in what you tell
> the kernel. <linux>/Documentation/memory.txt
>
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