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Use BIOS to get a memory map, or use [[GRUB]] (which calls BIOS for you).
===== Theoretical introduction =====
Direct memory probing is only useful for very old systems with buggy and/or non-updateable BIOSes, or maybe a system with modified hardware that does not much the firmware anymore. So if you don't intend to support this sort of computers, you don't need memory probing. Period.
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