Bug#148962: boot-floppies: Inaccurately calculates/reports amount of RAM on target machine
On Tue Jun 04, 2002 at 06:13:43PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 02:17, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> > On my target system with 12mb of physical RAM, the boot floppies set
> > complains that I only have 9mb, and should have 12mb to run woody.
> >
> > Incidentally, 9mb is what 'free' reports. Since this, IIRC, does not
> > include kernel memory, it is obviously not going to show a completely
> > accurate number.
>
> Yeah, dbootstrap checks /proc/meminfo, which is probably the same thing
> "free" looks at. I don't actually know of a way to find out what the
> physical memory size is, though I guess one must exist. Suggestions
> would be welcome.
http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/procps/free.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
-Erik
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