On Saturday, 10.12.2005 at 13:50 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > [root@threshnet:thresh]$ uname -a > > > Linux threshnet 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 > > > GNU/Linux > > > > > > Hal > > > > You can't get more than about 900 MB of accessible RAM with that kernel. > > I'm sorry for not being clear, but I think that the stock Debian > > kernels were 4 GB enabled starting with 2.6.11. So, you would need to > > be using a kernel from Etch or Sid. Alternatively, you can roll your own. > > > > -Roberto > > Arrggghhh! (Not at you -- just at the thought of rolling my own kernel -- for > some reason, I have *never* gotten a kernel I compiled to work properly!) You don't need to: install the stock *686* 2.6 kernel from Sarge: that has high memory support. The image is: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 - you currently have kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 which is the 2.6 *installation* (i.e. 'safe') kernel. apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 should do the trick. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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