[syslinux] Fw: Re: Memdisk Question

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Feb 7 13:22:54 PST 2011


On 02/07/2011 09:31 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 07:03, Robert McLay <the80sphreak at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gene,
>>
>>> label cesg
>>>  menu label ^CESG Software (GeneC Memdisk Hack)
>>>  kernel images/memdisk-res2
>>>  append initrd=images/cesg.img mem=268435456
>>
>>  That worked!  The box had 1536MB RAM and I forced it down to 256MB and
>>  all is well.  I've spent most of this morning trying varying amounts of
>>  artificial RAM limits, all the way up to 1020MB, as we know the next
>>  4MB increment will cause a crash, and it worked perfectly.
> 
> I'm glad to hear that the second run of my patch worked.  I'm
> currently preparing more such that it will interpret the standard
> suffixes.
> 
> HPA: Thank you for the advice on how to implement the memory range patching.
> 

Thank you for doing this work!

	-hpa




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