Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: New new enhanced memory detection patch; testers wanted | Date | 23 Feb 1999 17:21:59 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.99022303231801.12718@taral.dobiecenter.com>, Taral <taral@cyberjunkie.com> wrote: >Anthony Barbachan wrote: >> Time = money + free >> time, so having to boot with a boot floppy to get a LILO damaged machine >> back up, then reinstall LILO, and then reboot again so that the boot loader >> could redetect the correct amount of memory to pass to the kernel could easy >> add downtime costing Linux users both precious time and $. > >Take a look at GRUB. It can load itself from a floppy, then boot the kernel >from virtually anywhere (including finding it as a file in an ext2 filesystem).
Unfortunately it's Yet Another Piece of Nonstandard Code that you'd have to lug around, and for what? As a bootstrap loader, it's pretty good, but as a kernel helper app to detect memory sizes, it's spending a lot of disk space and cpu cycles to do what can be plopped in the kernel where it belongs.
____ david parsons \bi/ Finally got a 2.2.1 kernel to compile, too. \/
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