On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Henry House wrote:
> 1. Memory size detection by the kernel is not reliable on i386
> architectures above 64Mb.
>
> 2. The GRUB bootloader can generally detect the memory size reliably
> and will pass the size it finds to the kernel!
>
> 3. The hardware memory check is done by the BIOS, well before the kernel
> loads, so Linux knows nothing about it.
Then one can ask: How does Windows do it and why can't we do the same?
-Mark
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