Re: How to enable HIGHMEM in sid?
On Fri, 23 May 2003 14:58:55 -0700
Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian sid on a Dell laptop with 1 GB RAM.
> dmsg tells me that this warning occurs during the boot process:
>
> "Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
> 896MB LOWMEM available."
>
> Does this mean what it sounds like? i.e., that I'm only going to
> be able to access 900 MB RAM unless I install a kernel with HIGHMEM
> enabled? If so, are there .debs of kernels with HIGHMEM enabled,
> or should I build from scratch? Or is there a configuration/boot
> switch that does this?
>
What kernel version are you running? If it's an old 2.2.x try installing
a 2.4 kernel. There are several available I believe depending on
architecture...
greets,
Wim
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