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Re: new installation not finding large memory



Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 23:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit :
> 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...

If your processor is a 686 compatible, use the i686 from sarge !
If you have an athlon, use the k7 one.
There's more than one "out-of-the-box" kernel in sarge.
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# aptitude show kernel-image

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