Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 12:47:25 -0500 brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like LILO for the test so I can check it on remote sites before I have to reboot. To each his own - pros and cons on each. One reason I don't use GRUB is that it won't boot my SCSI RAID5 array. There's no winner in this contest. To each his own is the right approach. I dropped out of LILO in those dim distant days when GRUB could boot a partition 1024 and LILO couldn't, and I've never looked back. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2003 05:42 schrieb ext Collins Richey: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:33:36 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but lilo lets you run a test first before you commit - saved me from fat fingers several times G. Which is why I always keep a usable kernel and grub stanza for it untouched. Being somewhat paranoid, I also have a grub boot floppy pointing to this kernel. OTOH, hit c in the grub boot menu, and you get a command line, where you can select whatever kernel you want to boot. Nice when you forgot to edit grub.conf before reboot. This is impossible with lilo. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Cap Gemini Ernst Young| Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.cgey.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:19, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: OTOH, hit c in the grub boot menu, and you get a command line, where you can select whatever kernel you want to boot. Nice when you forgot to edit grub.conf before reboot. This is impossible with lilo. And if you fat-finger it, you can hit e at the boot menu and edit the boot line. Saved me a few times that! - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qLhrInuLMrk7bIwRAuKPAJ4qeGEEn2IsFC/2PZ2LzsuGOWEbJQCeOChi hp0YIXmgsNKY2VyDzuCiMp0= =BrNF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
I like LILO for the test so I can check it on remote sites before I have to reboot. To each his own - pros and cons on each. One reason I don't use GRUB is that it won't boot my SCSI RAID5 array. On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:19:07 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2003 05:42 schrieb ext Collins Richey: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:33:36 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but lilo lets you run a test first before you commit - saved me from fat fingers several times G. Which is why I always keep a usable kernel and grub stanza for it untouched. Being somewhat paranoid, I also have a grub boot floppy pointing to this kernel. OTOH, hit c in the grub boot menu, and you get a command line, where you can select whatever kernel you want to boot. Nice when you forgot to edit grub.conf before reboot. This is impossible with lilo. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Cap Gemini Ernst Young| Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.cgey.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
Hi I am basically a FreeBSD guy but need to install a Linux server for some special java stuff. I installed a aa-sources kernel using gentoo 1.4-release stage3 non GRP on a dual athlon 2800+ system gigabyte MB with 3gig RAM. I would like to know what I have to do to have the kernel recognize all 3 gig of RAM. When I boot the kernel that was configured using genkernel --config and set the user addressable RAM parameter under the CPU sectiom to 2 GB, I get Warning only 1920MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 1920MB LOWMEM available. If I set that to 3gb, the system won't boot. I get to LILO I boot (my entry is called Gentoo) and it says Gento. and there it freezes Please enlighten me on what I need to do to have the system use the 3gb. Thanks Chad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
There is an option in the kernel build to let it recognize that. I've never used genkernel so I don't know where or if it lets you get to that. I'd cd to /usr/src/linux then run make menuconfig and select the options from there. Use the install instructions for a non-genkernel to build your kernel. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:49, you wrote: Hi I am basically a FreeBSD guy but need to install a Linux server for some special java stuff. I installed a aa-sources kernel using gentoo 1.4-release stage3 non GRP on a dual athlon 2800+ system gigabyte MB with 3gig RAM. I would like to know what I have to do to have the kernel recognize all 3 gig of RAM. When I boot the kernel that was configured using genkernel --config and set the user addressable RAM parameter under the CPU sectiom to 2 GB, I get Warning only 1920MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 1920MB LOWMEM available. If I set that to 3gb, the system won't boot. I get to LILO I boot (my entry is called Gentoo) and it says Gento. and there it freezes Please enlighten me on what I need to do to have the system use the 3gb. Thanks Chad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 00:07, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: There is an option in the kernel build to let it recognize that. I've never used genkernel so I don't know where or if it lets you get to that. I'd cd to /usr/src/linux then run make menuconfig and select the options from there. Use the install instructions for a non-genkernel to build your kernel. genkernel --config punts you into menuconfig. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qEDOInuLMrk7bIwRAoZuAJsHmj7IRU0H1acTVaoqFXZQGCs0SQCdGbXI OwDHA+fawwQUIUPGBgN2enU= =EopO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
On Nov 4, 2003, at 4:58 PM, Luke Davison wrote: Chad, Please enlighten me on what I need to do to have the system use the 3gb. In your kernel (assuming make menuconfig), set: Processor type and features / High Memory Support The options are: off, 4gb, or 64gb. Thanks to all who responded. My problem as a BSD person, a newbie to gentoo and linux (I have run SuSE and Mandrake in the past but never rebuilt a kernel or anything) was that I was not re-running /sbin/lilo after every kernel rebuild. The idea was foreign to me since the kernels always have the same name. But if I do not re-run /sbin/lilo, it hangs with (I call me boot Gentoo) Gento... hangs up here If I do that (/sbin/lilo) after rebuilding the kernel it works. I had already had the correct parameters in my experimentation in order to get the memory to work, but had not been able to boot due to this problem with lilo. I appreciate all the response and the above Luke Davison response is correct, set the High Mem (in my case to 4gb since this is a normal motherboard) and set user memory to 3gb. Thanks Chad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:07:13 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 4, 2003, at 4:58 PM, Luke Davison wrote: Chad, Please enlighten me on what I need to do to have the system use the 3gb. In your kernel (assuming make menuconfig), set: Processor type and features / High Memory Support The options are: off, 4gb, or 64gb. Thanks to all who responded. My problem as a BSD person, a newbie to gentoo and linux (I have run SuSE and Mandrake in the past but never rebuilt a kernel or anything) was that I was not re-running /sbin/lilo after every kernel rebuild. The idea was foreign to me since the kernels always have the same name. But if I do not re-run /sbin/lilo, it hangs with (I call me boot Gentoo) My $.02 Just run grub! Then you won't need to remember to run /sbin/lilo. Grub finds the kernel by filename (if you didn't fat-finger it) at boot time. You can regenerate the same kernel as many times as you like. Only if you name a new kernel do you need to update grub.conf (or menu.lst the older name). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
Ah, but lilo lets you run a test first before you commit - saved me from fat fingers several times G. On Tuesday 04 November 2003 23:22, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:07:13 -0700 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 4, 2003, at 4:58 PM, Luke Davison wrote: My $.02 Just run grub! Then you won't need to remember to run /sbin/lilo. Grub finds the kernel by filename (if you didn't fat-finger it) at boot time. You can regenerate the same kernel as many times as you like. Only if you name a new kernel do you need to update grub.conf (or menu.lst the older name). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using all my 3gb of ram in the kernel -- how?
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:33:36 -0500 Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but lilo lets you run a test first before you commit - saved me from fat fingers several times G. Which is why I always keep a usable kernel and grub stanza for it untouched. Being somewhat paranoid, I also have a grub boot floppy pointing to this kernel. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
