[H-GEN] ESS xxxxxxx

[Byron Ellacott]

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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Steven MCINTYRE wrote:

>   A very good question, my "hack" for this down in Nerang this weekend
> was to use DOS drivers to initialise the hardware and jump into Linux
> via loadlin.

Only useful if one has DOS installed ;)  probably a PnP issue, if that's
the case.  Although a PCI ``PnP'' card shouldn't ever have issues.

>   Worked out reasonably well, once I debugged my scripts since I could not
> fall back onto LILO (>1024 cyl) and I couldn't determine a way to convince
> Linux I have 126M of memory (yes 126M) using rdev.

126, eh.  I believe you just pass an argument to the kernel at boot time,
"mem=126M" or similar.

loadlin or lilo will pass arguments.

--
bje


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