Intel SVR4 Boot BUG

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <976 at lewis.OZ> steve at lewis.OZ (Steve Pattinson) writes:

| I believe it may have something to do with the mapping of the
| 384K of RAM between 640K and 1Meg.  My machine includes this
| with EXTENDED memory giving :- 
| 				Base Memory  :  640K
| 				Extended "   : 3456K
| 
| totalling 4096K or 4 Megs which corresponds to the actual amount
| of memory installed.

  I think you're right. Several of the m.b.'s I have used warn me not to
enable mapping if I have more than 1MB, because it puts two physical
addresses at the same logical address (or some such). I would turn it
off if I could.
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