From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:01:25 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179754285.10561.1.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46518E02.5060804@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:18 +0000, Marek Miller wrote:
> I think, I have found a way to tell the kernel how much memory I have.
> Simple
> mem=300M
> appended to the boot command and all defunct RAM (above 300M)
> is inaccessible. So far, my laptop works as if nothing has happened.
of course! it's funny how we all ran off thinking about recompiling
kernels and live cd's, when this is all you had to do. Such a simple
answer right in front of us...
> Linux's great.
sure is. try doing that in Winblows
> Thanks for all for handful tips.
you mean it was a handful because we gave you bogus ideas?! ;)
cya,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 20:20 [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour Marek Miller
2007-05-18 0:05 ` b.n.
2007-05-20 23:01 ` Marek Miller
[not found] ` <200705210030.52954.coder.tux@gmail.com>
2007-05-20 23:16 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-05-21 7:08 ` Mick
2007-05-21 9:50 ` Florian Philipp
2007-05-21 12:18 ` Marek Miller
2007-05-21 13:31 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2007-05-21 14:53 ` Dale
2007-05-21 9:24 ` Nistor Andrei
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