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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

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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