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Added --no-mem-option to Grub command line in menu.lst to disable

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Grub's insistence on passing mem= to the kernel. Closes 737.


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</itemizedlist> </itemizedlist>
</listitem> </listitem>
<listitem><para>January 9th, 2004 [greg]: Chapter 8 - Making the LFS system
bootable: Added --no-mem-option to Grub command line in menu.lst to disable
Grub's insistence on passing mem= to the kernel. Closes 737.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>January 7th, 2004 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Util-linux: Added command <listitem><para>January 7th, 2004 [greg]: Chapter 5 - Util-linux: Added command
to install the arch program which is needed by Perl for consistency. Upgraded to install the arch program which is needed by Perl for consistency. Upgraded
to Kbd-1.10.</para></listitem> to Kbd-1.10.</para></listitem>

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# The first entry is for LFS. # The first entry is for LFS.
title LFS &milestone; title LFS &milestone;
root (hd0,3) root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/lfskernel root=/dev/hda4 ro kernel --no-mem-option /boot/lfskernel root=/dev/hda4
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
<note><para>By default, Grub will automatically pass a "mem=xxx" command line
argument to the kernel. However, Grub sometimes gets the amount of memory wrong
which can lead to problems in some circumstances. It's best to disable this
functionality and let the kernel determine the amount of memory itself, hence
the use of the <emphasis>--no-mem-option</emphasis> above.</para></note>
<para>You may want to add an entry for your host distribution. It might look <para>You may want to add an entry for your host distribution. It might look
like this:</para> like this:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /boot/grub/menu.lst &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput> <screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt; /boot/grub/menu.lst &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
title Red Hat title Red Hat
root (hd0,2) root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda3 ro kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>

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"/usr/share/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [ "/usr/share/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY version "CVS-20040108"> <!ENTITY version "CVS-20040109">
<!ENTITY releasedate "January 8th, 2004"> <!ENTITY releasedate "January 9th, 2004">
<!ENTITY milestone "5.1"> <!ENTITY milestone "5.1">
<!ENTITY nbsp " "> <!ENTITY nbsp " ">