On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:15:04AM -0500, Kenneth Freidank wrote:
> I finally got my T5048 to boot off an INSTALL kernel!
> :)
> 
> After about 30+ hours of trial and error, I arrived at an install kernel 
> that will finally boot this !#$ eMachine T5048 (D102GGC2).  The  kernel 
> is  bootfloppy-tiny, with the 2 lines added:
> 
> options     REALBASEMEM=638        # size of base memory
> options     REALEXTMEM=100000    # size of extended memory

There is a (compile time) option to the /boot code to print the memory sizes
it finds from the BIOS, there is also some old code (IIRC just compiled out)
that uses some alternate schemes (which don't work on new systems) to find
the size and ranges of available memory.  The info is then passed to the kernel.
Possibly the bios is getting this info wrong!

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk