Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:46:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | "B. James Phillippe" <> | Subject | Breaking the 64MB barrier |
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Greetings,
I am aware that passing the "mem=XX" option in LILO overcomes this problem; this is irrelevant because it has nothing to do with what I'm about to ask (for you rapid-reply "RTFM" people).
The question is this: I had a debate with someone about the 64MB+ memory issue with Linux. Their position is that it's a bug in the kernel, and mine was that it was an x86 BIOS limitation. I have two questions: 1.) who's right? 2.) How is it that Microsoft is able to deal with this without a bootloader option, and we can't? Seems this is a sizeable flaw (regardless of the cause) for systems where the memory amount may be changed dynamically. If this is indeed a kernel limitation, what would be required to get past it?
thanks, -bp -- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org UNIX Software Engineer . http://www.terran.org/~bryan Member since 1.1.59 . finger:bryan@earth.terran.org MOTM: Waiting for the DSL to go in :)
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