Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-25 Thread Jim Pick
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels handle a gigabyte of memory? Yes. For more than 1GB, go to: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/more_than_1GB.html There was a lot of discussion about this on the linux-kernel mailing list lately. > Also, I remember reading

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi again, > 2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM. > > Thus, you'll wanna use "mem=960M". > > You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel > memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB). Can the 2.1/2.2 kernel

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Robert, > # dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > # cd /mnt > # rm linux > # cp /place/i/have/my/working/kernel linux > # ./rdev.sh > # cd / > # umount /mnt > > Yes, the rdev.sh script does require that you mount the disk on /mnt. > > Make sure your rescue disk con

Re: boot disk question/suggestion

1999-01-23 Thread Robert Woodcock
Ossama Othman wrote: >The machines both have two Adaptec 7890 and one Adaptec 7860 SCSI chipsets >installed. Each machine also has a gigabyte of memory and four Intel >Pentium II Xeons installed. In order to get RedHat to work we had to fool >the kernel into thinking that it had less than a gig o