[H-GEN] ESS xxxxxxx

Steven MCINTYRE stev at uq.net.au
Mon Nov 8 00:10:53 EST 1999


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> >   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.

  Looks like what I wrote above is ambiguous, I got 126M with ESS (sound)
working with 2.2.13 (Redhat 6.0) via loadlin.  lilo is not possible
because of the machine setup, so how does one use rdev to modify
a kernel image so you don't need to pass the mem=126M option?

  Steven McIntyre
  stev at uq.net.au



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