Re: boot disk question/suggestion

[Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>]

Hi again,

> 2.0.x maxes out at 2^30-2^26 = 1006632960 bytes, or 960MB, of RAM.
> 
> Thus, you'll wanna use "mem=960M".
> 
> You can also adjust some headers (I forget which) to expand the kernel
> memory / virtual memory split (it is adjustable, and it defaults to 1GB/3GB).

Can the 2.1/2.2 kernels handle a gigabyte of memory?  Also, I remember
reading somewhere that the 2.1/2.2 kernels can handle swap partitions
greater than 128MB.  Is this also true?

Sorry guys, I guess I should be asking this on debian-user.

-Ossama