Re: Bogus low-memory mode
Hello,
Samuel Thibault, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 23:15:03 +0200, a écrit :
> Donald Allen, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 17:01:52 -0400, a écrit :
> > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Donald Allen, le Mon 03 Jun 2013 16:45:56 -0400, a écrit :
> > >> so I don't think it's possible to run the system on
> > >> that machine.
> > >
> > > Well, it's the installer which will refuse to start, because 256MiB is
> > > indeed too short, but you should be able to run an already-installed
> > > system, by dumping the pre-installed image into the disk. Not trivial,
> > > but should be feasible.
> >
> > But if I attempt to do that, I'm guessing the installed system will
> > think there's 256MB rather than the actual 2GB
>
> Yes.
You will however be able to upgrade to the latest gnumach package, which
now has discontiguous memory map support, confirmed to be working on my
laptop which has a very discontiguous memory layout :)
Samuel
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