-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:53:34PM +1200, Miskell, Craig wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:25:16PM +1200, Miskell, Craig wrote: > > > 5) Playing with memmap to exclude mem from 610-640K from > > being used by > > > the kernel. > > > > How about these kernel options ? > > > > memmap=exactmap [KNL,IA-32] Enable setting of an exact > > E820 memory map, as specified by the user. > > Such memmap=exactmap lines can be > > constructed based on > > BIOS output or other requirements. > > See the memmap=nn at ss > > option description. > > > > memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] > > [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. > > Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. > I used memmap=3K$637K to avoid the 3K segment just below 640K (which my > BIOS diagnostics told me was reserved), with no luck. I bumped that up > to memmap=30K$610K (lots of padding), also without luck. > > Similarly, I have tried: > memmap=240M at 16M (no luck) > And > mem=240M at 16M ( no luck) > > as there seems to be some varying opinions on the 'net as to which of > those is correct syntax. There are not varying opinions. Using @ (instead of $) is a valid syntax if you want to _force_ the kernel to use that region :) > Of course, I might be wrong about the base cause in which case none of > this is relevant ;-) Can't help you there :) - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEiNexpdyWzQ5b5ckRApc2AJ4hfcSSWCRhHmviYelSc5pwQvKqjgCfXMCn Ekw3x5nnYOFFnE+QeU8G02Y= =hLWf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----