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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

Have you tried adding to boot.bat after 'loadlin zimage' mem=256M?

We have a laptop Compaq with 24MB that was recognized in DOS, but BL1 
could recognize only 16MB of that until we added mem=24M.  I know this is 
not the same exact problem but it might help anyway.  

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
>   A silly question, perhaps.  :)
> 
>   On my main machine, I now have 256 MB RAM.
> 
>   DOS, of course, sees only 64 MB RAM, but so does BL2 when I boot it
> from DOS.
> 
>   Would Linux (BasicLinux) see all of it if I booted directly to it
> instead of going through DOS first ?
> 
>   And would it make any noticable difference ?
> 
> Regards,
>          Ron 
> 
>