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Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:00 pm
by Guest
Does anybody know how to read the memory
size information from GRUB?

Thanx in advance

RE:Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:00 pm
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

RE:Determination Of Installed Memory Via the Bootloader

Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:00 pm
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