Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:32:42 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Admin <admin@technotex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOS!!! - trying to exlude memory over 10Mb Message-ID: <36D6A27A.E544F32D@tdx.co.uk> References: <008601be61a4$3ee553e0$f378a8c0@t560ed>
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> Admin wrote: > > Dear all! > > I have a Toshiba Tecra 700CS series Laptom with 16 MB. Unfortunately, there > are some physically damaged bits between 10MB to 11 MB physical memory area. > I tried to install 32-bits Operating systems like Windows 95/NT/ OS/2, major > versions of Unix (SUN Solaris for i386, BSD Unix, Free BSD, SCO Unix, etc.) > but could not get my Laptop worked. Only Linux works on this Laptop because > during boot process of Linux I excluded the 10-16MB area by typing: > > Linux mem=10M Hi, Please don't post HTML messages to this list - not everyone can read them! :( - Also you should try to use a more 'informative' subject line that just "SOS" :) You may be able to compile a kernel with MAXMEM set to 10Mb, this might work... - I'm not too sure how you would be able to create a boot/install disk with this kernel instead of the normal one, someone else may be able to help with that... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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