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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL2 sees same RAM as DOS
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:56:30 +1000

Hi Sindi,

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:28:56 -0400 (EDT)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:

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

I have now ! And it did the trick. :)

Thank you !

I don't think it has increased performance measurably, but then I
don't have much to run that would even stress 64 MB RAM.

> 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.

It certainly did.

> 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 noticeable difference ?


Regards,
Ron

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