dosemu and latest F8 kernel

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Jun 10 00:05:56 UTC 2008


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:16:23 -0600
> Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
>> I don't understand why it changed, but the latest F8 kernel (2.6.25.4-10.fc8)
>> doesn't work as-issued with dosemu.
>>
>> When loading dosemu, I get the following message:
>>
>> LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument
>> Segmentation fault
> 
> And after getting that far with my message, I forgot to ask my question:
> 
> Why did this value change from what it used to be, i.e. 0?  Is there anything
> bad that will happen now that I've changed it back?

I just looked, its 0 on my i386 F8 system running 2.6.24.7-92, and its 
65536 on my x86_64 F9 system running 2.5.25.3-18.  dosbox runs just fine 
on my F9 system.  I've had so many problems with dosemu in the past that 
I've abandoned it....

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