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SubjectRe: New new enhanced memory detection patch; testers wanted
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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.

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david parsons \bi/ Finally got a 2.2.1 kernel to compile, too.
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