Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 02:13:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: >64MB Message-ID: <199711010213.TAA15524@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971031171014.417B-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Oct 31, 97 05:11:03 pm
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> Why does the bootloader only report 64MB if you have >64MB > you know right above the boot: prompt? It reports what the BIOS tells it to report. It reports less because the BIOS lies. The value "right abouve the boot: prompt" is printed by the BIOS (strange how it doesn't lie to itself ;-)). Work on calling BIOS calls via VM86(). Get that working, and dozens of people will be happy to correct the problem for you. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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