Re: mem size at bootup

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:59, Yaoping Ruan wrote:
> could anybody tell me if there's any option to specify the size of
> memory I want to use in Linux. We have a box with 4GB memory but we
> would like to run some experiment with only 2GB memory. Is there any
> option like the "hw.physmem" in FreeBSD?

mem= on the kernel command-line.

In lilo, you do something like this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
	label=2420
	read-only
	optional
	append="mem=2G"

-- 
Dave Hansen
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