Gevaerts Frank a écrit:
>...
> > Well, folks, I am puzzled a bit. What exactly is this Win95 'setup' that is
> > referred to above? I have had Lilo on my system for over a year now (with Linux as
> > the default kernel) and have rebooted a few times into Win95, but have never come
> > to grief.
> >
> It's something in the control panel, it's not normally run. (Add/Remove
> programs -tab: Windows setup or something)
Nono... it's the Win95 INSTALL program. But many Win95 'ab'users know
that a M$ installation is *rarely* definitive. Sometimes (for me it's
once or twice a month) Win95 seems to commit 'suicide', and must be
reinstalled... and it's THEN when Lilo is wiped off the MBR.
> > > > >...
> > > And even a bit less, to account for the memory that the BIOS reserves. (ie
> > > if you have 128M, tell the system it's 127M). The bios usually needs a few
> > > 100 K's.
> >
> > I have never heard of this before. I would imagine that the kernel is aware of the
> > amount of memory reserved for BIOS and would subtract this out to get the correct
> > value. Is your statement documented somewhere, oris it speculation on your part?
> >
> Don't know if it is documented in some proper place, but there was talk
> about this in linux-kernel
The Linux Kernel *asks* Bios-CMOS about the amount of RAM available, but
most Bioses can't report more than 64 Megs. Neither do they report their
own memory needs. That's why the kernel has to be made aware. Hopefully
one day it can do that alone...
This IS documented, I've read it quite often. (e.g. in "Running Linux",
and in various Linux mailing lists. Sure there is a HOWTO
somewhere...)
Greetings, best wishes and all...
Norbert
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