Re: how to add a new boot entry limiting memory size

[Ashwin Rao <ashwin.shirvanthe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 5, 2005 1:36 AM, Cristina Rivera <cris_apricot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I need to add a new boot entry to grub with the kernel version that I
> usually work with but in this case I need to add an entry limiting the
> memory to 128MB for example, I've read that it can be done by adding mem =
> size line to grub but,...if I want to get a new entry limiting memory
> preserving the rest of entries where I add the entry mem= size? Can you give
> me an example?

mem=128M is one of the the kernel arguments
just append this to the line where where you specify where the kernel is.
i.e.  
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25 ro root=/dev/hda2  mem=128M

> 
> Thanks in advance.
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