[H-GEN] where does linux load first in memory?

[Frank Brand]

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Timothy J Hitchens wrote:
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> Firstly crashing is more than likely becasue of incompat memory in each slot
> so the best
> way I have found over the years is to try installing the first floppy of
> Windows NT it
> will not like even a little hardware problem and crash if so that is the
> memory
> problem.  Linux will install as does Win98 with suspect memory!


Win 98 will often object to dud memory. Sometimes you can actually load
Windows and the machine will object about memory when it does its first
actuall startup.

>From memory Linux has the capacity to detect memory thats a bit off and
mark it as a no-go area.
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Frank Brand
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Home Page:-http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand

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