Re: [Qemu-devel] OS/2 Bootloader Some weird behaviour of branch instruct

[Tero Kaarlela <turo.kaarlela@co.inet.fi>]

ecs user wrote:

>>Tero Kaarlela wrote:
>>Could this be because OS/2 can't handle this much
>>ram(128mb).
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>eComStation can do at least 2GB and with updates 4GB
>OS/2 Warp4 should be able to handle 256MB
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  Well I was talking about OS/2 PowerPC edition (Released december 1995)
   During that time Warp V3 could handle 64mb maximum. This was 
mentioned somewhere in my earlier post.

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>>OS/2 has always been very specific about maximum
>>memory(ie. versions 1.x can't boot on machines
>>that report more than 16mb ram. this is one of the
>>reasons 1.x versions dont boot under Qemu and
>>thats why many BIOSES have option "boot to OS/2). 
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>Don't use those motherboard BIOS settings with
>eComStation or OS/2 Warp4. Leave the BIOS setting at
>default - "OS/2 use greater than 64MB = No"
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Yes I knew this already(This option is for 1.x OS/2)


Tero