Re: [TCLUG:11113] Shared memory motherboards

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11113] Shared memory motherboards
From: Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:22:58 -0600
Organization: Bigtime Networks Inc.
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Kevin Bullock wrote:
> 
> In my attempts to evangelize people here on campus, I've run into trouble
> with trying to install Debian on motherboards with built-in video using
> shared memory. Namely, it can't boot because the ramdisk gets screwed up.
> Is there a way to get this to install, and if it does will it work?

What does it say for detecting ram? You may have to manually specify if
the BIOS isn't telling Linux right... Say if you have 64 of ram, and 4mb
used for video, try mem=60M on the boot command line...

References:
- Shared memory motherboards
  - From: Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>

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