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  From: Benjamin Close <benjsc@senet.com.au>
  To  : Michael Schwarz <michael@merlin.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:07:02 +1030

Re: RAM >64MB

Michael Schwarz wrote:

> I have read else where that if you have 128 meg of ram it is a good idea to
> set your lilo.conf to 127M - aparently this stops potential kernel panics.
> Anyone have any further info on this?

The reason for this is some motherboards use the last mem of memory for
shadowing & bios/video caching. Linux will panic whne it tries to use this
memory as bios will prevent the writes.

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