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authorhpa <hpa>1999-05-28 00:25:19 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>1999-05-28 00:25:19 +0000
commite6bdd09f7b41a54de3f470239bea942487224c6e (patch)
treefee57cc5ce3c6f984540ea98d5049d8e88e6b10b
parent0be5bea79598c33d91f54ee33d7cc451ed10eeb4 (diff)
downloadsyslinux-e6bdd09f7b41a54de3f470239bea942487224c6e.tar.gz
Change the HIGHMEM_MAX limit from 3f000000h to 38000000hsyslinux-1.44
-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--ldlinux.asm2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9f00d3cf..28a9075c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
Changes in 1.44:
+ * Change HIGHMEM_MAX to 38000000h to (hopefully) avoid the
+ kernel stepping on it; 3f000000h was apparently a higher
+ limit than the kernel used!
Changes in 1.43:
* Add sys2ansi.pl script to display the contents of a
diff --git a/ldlinux.asm b/ldlinux.asm
index aa1658c6..80aa274f 100644
--- a/ldlinux.asm
+++ b/ldlinux.asm
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
;
max_cmd_len equ 255 ; Must be odd; 255 is the kernel limit
retry_count equ 6 ; How patient are we with the disk?
-HIGHMEM_MAX equ 03f000000h ; Highest address for an initrd
+HIGHMEM_MAX equ 038000000h ; Highest address for an initrd
;
; Should be updated with every release to avoid bootsector/SYS file mismatch