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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> 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.


I just looked this up and mem= was specifically intended for the above use 
(DOS recognizes only 64MB, linux uses more).  I will check if my linux 
computer with 82MB is recognizing it all and add mem=82M if not.

You are now all set for fast compiling on that computer.
   
> > 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
> 
>