Re: new installation not finding large memory

[Miles Fidelman <milesf@meetinghouse.net>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Gilles Mocellin wrote:

> Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 22:26, Miles Fidelman a écrit :
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I know I must be doing something very silly, but my brand new installation
> > is only finding 1gig of the 4gig of ram installed in my brand new server.
> >
> > Even if I stick a "mem=4096m" line as a boot option, it's still not
> > showing up.  (the only suggestion I've seen in the reference materials).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Which kernel do you use ?
> I saw the same thing with a default i386 kernel.
> When I switched to an i686-smp one (Xeon HT), I saw the light... Hum, the 
> RAM !

I'm using the out-of-the-box i386 2.6 kernel that comes with the Sarge 
installer. 

So I guess I have to build a kernel?  Sigh...

Thanks,

Miles