On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Norbert Bottlaender-Prier wrote:
> 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.
Well actually, the control panel I mentionned runs the install program.
>
> > > > > >...
> > > > 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...
AFAIK it will starting with 2.0.36 (should be out RSN)
> 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
> --
Frank
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> -"Since I have dual boot, Win95 has become much more stable"
> -"That's what YOU think. In reality since, sometimes you happen to
> shutdown Lose95 before the GPF does it for you..."
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