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SubjectRe: Memory being incorrected sized at boot-up
Hi,

> > OK, I incorrectly assumed we call the old function first and continue
> >with the new one only if it reports 64M...
>
> That's what I did in 2.0.30, unfortuantely BIOS on Compaq's only
> reports a maximum of 16MB wiht the old BIOS call.

Maybe call the new one for >=16MB? This will reduce the chance of crash
on a mis-behaved BIOS to minimum. If such broken BIOS'es exist, they are
probably on the 386's and most 386 machines have probably <16MB RAM.

Have a nice fortnight
--
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Q: Do you believe in One God? A: Yes, up to isomorphism."

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