I used to boot the kernel directly off a floppy (created via "dd if=vmlinuz
of=/dev/fd0 bs=512").
After increasing memory to 96mb, I now boot a dos diskette containing
LOADLIN.EXE and the kernel.
The AUTOEXEC.BAT contains 1 line:
loadlin vmlinuz mem=96m hda=4088,64,63 root=/dev/hda2
There are other LOADLIN options if your parms won't fit into 1 line - see
/usr/doc/loadlin.
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From: Rick Macdonald
To: Vincent Murphy
Subject: Re: The case of the missing 64 meg...
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 6:04AM
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 12:31:39AM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
> > .. Simplest thing to do is put:
> >
> > append="mem=128m"
> >
> > in your lilo.conf file. For my 96 meg machine, I've got a stanza that
> > reads:
>
> what if i don't use lilo and i want to boot from a floppy? any way of
> makeing 2.0.x recognise >68MB RAM?
In fact, the original poster of this question has this situation and needs
to know how to add the mem parameter when booting from a floopy. The
floopy doesn't have the entire kernel; the floppy is read briefly and then
the kernel is loaded from the harddrive.
...RickM...
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