Re: added RAM, RAM not recognized by debian

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 17:54:03 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >Your kernel probably is not configured to recognize more than 1GB.
> >
> >- --
> 
> (Somewhat on topic anyway) - I've just ordered an upgrade for my box - 1 
> Gb of RAM included and an amd64 processor - will I need to recompile the 
> kernel to get support for all RAM? The debian version I intend to run is 
> the Etch (the file debian-testing-amd64-binary-1.iso downloaded today). 
> I will make a clean install.

I am not sure about the amd64 kernels in Etch; you can run

grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-$(uname -r)

to see if your kernel has been compiled with HIGHMEM support.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian