On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Mike Maravillo wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:29:25AM -0500, Ronneil Camara wrote:
> > >
> > > Kse some boards have embedded VGA adaptors which will eat
> > > upwards from 2MB
> > > of memory for display memory. You should take this into account when
> > > putting your 'mem=' kernel command line option.
> > >
> >
> > Ok. What would be the ideal approach for this scenario?
>
> Hmm... subtract the amount of shared memory allocated to video
> from physical memory?
what i generally do is be really aware of what value the memory test of
the bios stops counting. and place that value in the append =
"mem=nnnnnn"
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