Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels handle a gigabyte of memory?
Yes.
For more than 1GB, go to:
http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/more_than_1GB.html
There was a lot of discussion about this on the linux-kernel mailing
list lately.
Also, I remember reading
Hi again,
2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM.
Thus, you'll wanna use mem=960M.
You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel
memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB).
Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels
Hi Robert,
I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working!
I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem
but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being
unable to find the root filesystem?
Thanks,
-Ossama
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On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:53:55PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
Hi Robert,
I just wanted to thank you for your suggestion. It seems to be working!
I am having problems getting the boot procedure find the root filesystem
but at least I got this far! Any suggestions about the kernel being
Hi Robert,
Make sure your rescue disk contains ext2, msdos, ramdisk, initrd, and ELF
support.
Oh, I forgot, you need minix fs support too. See if that helps.
Indeed it did. :)
I had to use the rescue disk on master in Incoming but with my custom
kernel instead. It boots but it behaves
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