Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

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Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

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Does anybody know how to read the memory
size information from GRUB?

Thanx in advance
J. Weeks

RE:Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

Post by J. Weeks »

>On 2002-04-15 14:06:20, Anonymous wrote:
>Does anybody know how to read the memory
>size information from GRUB?

Well... looking in the grub documentation tells
me that it uses the bios 0x15 interrupt to do this,
and it even includes a link, describing how this
interrupt works:

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/mem64mb.html

Jeff
J. Weeks

RE:Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

Post by J. Weeks »

>On 2002-04-15 14:06:20, Anonymous wrote:
>Does anybody know how to read the memory
>size information from GRUB?

Well... looking in the grub documentation tells
me that it uses the bios 0x15 interrupt to do this,
and it even includes a link, describing how this
interrupt works:

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/mem64mb.html

Jeff
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