Re: 6G memory

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a machine w/ 6 gigs physical memory.
> kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686-smp only recognizes 4G.  I unsuccessfully
> tried to build a custom kernel with kernel-package and in the process
> learned that the 4G limit is due to a kernel option.  Is there a
> 2.4.26-1-[36]86-smp kernel available with the 64G mem option turned on?
> 
> I can't use a 2.6 kernel since we use Kerberos/AFS and AFAIK, AFS
> doesn't work on 2.6 yet.
> 

I don't think debian has those, but its easy to build your own. You can
download the kernel source, copy /boot/config-<kernel version> to
.config in the kernel tree, run make (menu|x)config and change the high
memory option to 64G and the run in the top kernel dir
make-kpkg --revision <revision> --initrd kernel-image
I never made and initrd kernel, but I think that should be the
method. Otherwise you can compile the file system for your root
partition in instead of a module and drop the --initrd option and skip
the whole initrd thing all together.

> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
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