Re: new installation not finding large memory

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
you can just apt-get a new kernel
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6 will show you the list of  available 
kernels, just pick the one that is right for your system