Re: I want all my 4GB!!!
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:30:09PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> 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
>
> Installed it, rebooted and hey presto,cat /proc/meminfo gives:
>
> MemTotal: 4074284 kB
>
> Thanks. You guys are so great.
Well if the BIOS does remap memory above 4GB, then on x86 you do need
a PAE kernel to get the rest of memory, which would be the 686-bigmem
kernel. On x86-64 you always get all the memory in that case.
I believe vista SP1 did in fact add PAE support, so that would make
sense there too.
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Len Sorensen
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