On Saturday 10 December 2005 01:42 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Saturday 10 December 2005 01:18 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Hal Vaughan wrote: > >>>It's running the stock 2.6 kernel from Sarge already. > >>> > >>>Hal > >> > >>Interesting, what happens when you run `grep HIGHMEM > >>/boot/config-<kernel version` and also `uname -a`? > >> > >>-Roberto > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root$ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 > > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set' > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: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!) Okay. I've forgotten how, but it's just a little Googling or some man pages to remember how to grab a package from Etch on a Sarge system. But that's something I can handle -- however, if I start using a kernel from Etch or Sid, will that create any kind of dependency issues? This is a production box, and I want to keep it stable so I don't have to worry about maintaining it. Thanks! Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
