Am 2009-07-21 22:30:09, schrieb Clive Menzies: > This is probably irrelevant but it may help someone searching the > archives. I bought a Thinkpad X61 with 4GB a while back. At first it > would recognise more than 3gb on either windows or squeeze. I checked > the BIOS which was registering 4Gb. I had many other things to do and > left it for a while. The windows deficiency must have been fixed in the > Vista (shudder) SP1 update but the Debian shortfall continued and I've > been following this thread. > > I use aptitude and found the following kernel package: > linux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem
There is NO "bigmem" Kernel for amd64 :-D
with an amd64 Kernel I can address without any problems 64 GByte of
memory from scratch, Which I have installed on one of my bigger Sun
together with 2 Opteron Quad-Core CPU's.
Under SPARC I get 256 GByte or memory :-)
> Installed it, rebooted and hey presto,cat /proc/meminfo gives:
> MemTotal: 4074284 kB
Yes because you are using i386
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