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On Friday 03 December 2004 17:10, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > 24-bit offsets give you a 16 MiB range, is that really a problem?
>
> The modules are loaded into the free memory of grubof.  And grubof is
> loaded to where it is linked, IIRC.  So I think that would cause
> problems. :)

A quite obvious solution would be to limit the max amount of dynamic 
memory to 16MB. For me, this sounds big enough...

On i386-pc, GRUB runs with 4MB memory.

Okuji