Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:54:59 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.93 won't boot |
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How about a bootup printk for when greater then 768M is detected and MAX_MEM is still 1024?
Kernel: Not All Physical Memory used: read the kernel bigmem docs!
On 8 Apr 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980407225708.645A-400000@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org>, > James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> wrote: > > > >Hmm... On two machines, I have gotten 2.1.93 to behave five different > >ways. > > Many of your problems seem to be due to CONFIG_MAX_MEM. > > This value _has_ to be much larger than the small values you try to feed > it. In particular, it does not make sense to make it smaller than 1024 > (which is the default value) > > As it also doesn't make sense to make it larger than 1024 unless you > have special needs, I have now removed the config option. The people > who need the config option have machines that can recompile the kernel > in 2 minutes, they can do that by hand. > > Linus > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >
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