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  • Subject: Re: [BL] HD boot = 4x greater ram usage?
  • Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:40:40 +1200

Message from Steven
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> I followed the HD install instructions in README.TXT,
> which worked fine. From my /baslin directory in DOS,
> I can now execute boot.bat or hd.bat successfully.
> When I run boot.bat, BL boots up using 4.5MB of my
> 32MB total RAM. Nice. But when I run hd.bat,
> BL boots up using 21MB. That seems weird.

Where do you get the 4.5mb and 21mb figures?
They look like HD usage (not RAM usage).

> I'm not using swap.img in /baslin. There IS
> a linux swap partition on the hard drive, but
> I've not activated it.

I suggest you activate it. For example, if your
swap partition is /dev/hda3
----------------
swapon /dev/hda3
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To make this automatic, put it in /etc/rc

Cheers,
Steven




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