Syslinux - Feb 2011 - Fw: Re: Memdisk Question

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 07:03, Robert McLay <the80sphreak at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Hi Gene,
>
>> label cesg
>> ?menu label ^CESG Software (GeneC Memdisk Hack)
>> ?kernel images/memdisk-res2
>> ?append initrd=images/cesg.img mem=268435456
>
> ?That worked! ?The box had 1536MB RAM and I forced it down to 256MB and
> ?all is well. ?I've spent most of this morning trying varying amounts
of
> ?artificial RAM limits, all the way up to 1020MB, as we know the next
> ?4MB increment will cause a crash, and it worked perfectly.
I'm glad to hear that the second run of my patch worked.  I'm
currently preparing more such that it will interpret the standard
suffixes.

HPA: Thank you for the advice on how to implement the memory range patching.

-- 
-Gene

On 02/07/2011 09:31 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 07:03, Robert McLay <the80sphreak at
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gene,
>>
>>> label cesg
>>>  menu label ^CESG Software (GeneC Memdisk Hack)
>>>  kernel images/memdisk-res2
>>>  append initrd=images/cesg.img mem=268435456
>>
>>  That worked!  The box had 1536MB RAM and I forced it down to 256MB and
>>  all is well.  I've spent most of this morning trying varying
amounts of
>>  artificial RAM limits, all the way up to 1020MB, as we know the next
>>  4MB increment will cause a crash, and it worked perfectly.
> 
> I'm glad to hear that the second run of my patch worked.  I'm
> currently preparing more such that it will interpret the standard
> suffixes.
> 
> HPA: Thank you for the advice on how to implement the memory range
patching.
> 
Thank you for doing this work!

	-hpa