Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 04:16:40PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> > On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:
> >
> > > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> > > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb.
> >
> > (I am quite sure that) the 640 k l
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 04:16:40PM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:
>
> > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb.
>
> (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's
> real-m
On 1999-04-27 23:49, Helge Hafting wrote:
> The processor do indeed have 1MB to play with, but only 640k of
> that is RAM. The rest of that address space is reserved for
> memory mapped devices such as the cga/vga compatible screen.
> The 640k limit applies to all real-mode software, not
> msdos
> On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:
>
> > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> > mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb.
>
> (I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's
> real-mode limit is 1 MB.
The processor do indeed have 1MB to play w
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I am pretty sure it is a hardware limitation
Are well, it doesn't matter particularly.
Peter Allen
Allan M. Wind wrote:
>
> On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:
>
> > It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> > mode, which is limit
On 1999-04-27 18:53, Peter Allen wrote:
> It is because on i386 machines the processor boots in real
> mode, which is limited to the (in)famous 640Kb.
(I am quite sure that) the 640 k limit is DOS, while the CPU's
real-mode limit is 1 MB.
/Allan
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n 2 machines yesterday.
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote:
> >
> > > i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got
> > > slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
> > > 2.2.6 to upgra
> Yes! But could anyone explaing to me why it is must be less than 512kb??
The boot loader doesn't run in protected mode. It runs in a 8086
compatible mode that the pc BIOS set up. The cpu can only
address 640kB of memory in this mode. Some of this
space is needed for the boot loader itself, so
it with 2.2.6 on 2 machines yesterday.
>
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote:
>
> > i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got
> > slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
> > 2.2.6 to upgrade the first ti
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 06:02:50PM -0400, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
> What is the inherent issue which puts a limit on the size max size of
> the kernel? And what plans do Linus et al have for 3.0+ or whenever even "bz"
> Kernels pass this size limit?
How close does bzImage come to the lim
Anonymous Coward wrote:
>
> i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got
> slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
> 2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i
> searched mailing list archives and fo
What is the inherent issue which puts a limit on the size max size of
the kernel? And what plans do Linus et al have for 3.0+ or whenever even "bz"
Kernels pass this size limit?
>> Root device is (3,5)
>> Boot sector is 512 bytes
>> Setup is 1286 bytes
>> System is 526 kB
>> System is too
to make
a boot floppy, and LILO will be reconfigured.
On 24-Apr-99 Anonymous Coward wrote:
> i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got
> slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
> 2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 com
t fairly experienced linux user. i just got
> slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
> 2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i
> searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the bin86 package
> so then that worked. now i
try to make some option of your config to be module :
for the sound
scsi
printer line
but don't do it for importante thing like :
ext2
scsi if you boot on a scsi drive
bye
>
> i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got
> slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
> 2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i
> searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the bin
i'm a new debian user, but fairly experienced linux user. i just got
slink (debian 2.1) in the mail so installed it. i downloaded kernel
2.2.6 to upgrade the first time it said a86 command not found so i
searched mailing list archives and found out i needed the bin86 package
so then that w
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