>From: blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:18:19 +0930 (CST)

>...  What I need to do is tell the kernel I only have
>16Meg of memory.  I have tried butchering boot.c/asm.S/machdep.c to
>convince the kernel that there is only 16Meg but it still seems to
>find out how much is there!  How can I convince it otherwise?  Would
>"fixing" memsize do the job? (where is memsize BTW?)

1.2BETA has "options EXTMEM_SIZE", but 1.1 doesn't.  You should RTFS
the 1.2B sources to see how EXTMEM_SIZE works.

>* Sad story vis-a-vi scsi cards.... when I first got my motherboard I
>bought an ASUS SC200 PCI scsi card (NCR53C810 chip set) on the basis
>that the same people made both so it should work.

The 1.1 ncr driver was buggy; the 1.2 driver should work better.
-- 
Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>     <URL:http://www.shore.net/~mikel>
VLSI Design Engineer         finger mikel@shore.net for PGP public key
Analog Devices, CPD Division          CCBF225E7D3F7ECB2C8F7ABB15D9BE7B
Norwood, MA 02062 USA       (eq (opinion 'ADI) (opinion 'mike)) -> nil