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Re: I want all my 4GB!!!



Am 2009-07-21 22:30:09, schrieb Clive Menzies:
> This is probably irrelevant but it may help someone searching the
> archives.  I bought a Thinkpad X61 with 4GB a while back.  At first it
> would recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze.  I checked
> the BIOS which was registering 4Gb.  I had many other things to do and
> left it for a while.  The windows deficiency must have been fixed in the
> Vista (shudder) SP1 update but the Debian shortfall continued and I've
> been following this thread.
> 
> I use aptitude and found the following kernel package:
> linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem

There is NO "bigmem" Kernel for amd64  :-D

with an amd64 Kernel I can address  without  any  problems  64 GByte  of
memory from scratch, Which I have installed on  one  of  my  bigger  Sun
together with 2 Opteron Quad-Core CPU's.

Under SPARC I get 256 GByte or memory  :-)

> Installed it, rebooted and hey presto,cat /proc/meminfo gives:
> MemTotal:      4074284 kB

Yes because you are using i386

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

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