On Saturday 10 December 2005 02:19 pm, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Saturday, 10.12.2005 at 13:50 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > [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!) > > You don't need to: install the stock *686* 2.6 kernel from Sarge: that > has high memory support. The image is: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 - you > currently have kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 which is the 2.6 *installation* > (i.e. 'safe') kernel. > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > should do the trick. > > Dave.
Yep! It did it. There was a bit of a mess up with /boot/grub/menu.lst, since the (*#%&@ Adaptec card I have insists on being first in the IDE sequence. I had fixed it previously, but the new menu.lst didn't have the patches. I forgot about it completely until I got a File Not Found error from Grub -- then it was just a matter of copying the fixes over from the backup menu.list~ aptitude kept for me. (I've detailed these changes on this list, but a search didn't turn them up -- wonder why?) Thanks! Hal Current settings/info: ---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 107:CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y 108:# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set 109:# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ uname -a Linux threshnet 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2044344 kB MemFree: 1819432 kB Buffers: 5376 kB Cached: 37820 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 178600 kB Inactive: 21140 kB HighTotal: 1146816 kB HighFree: 949184 kB LowTotal: 897528 kB LowFree: 870248 kB SwapTotal: 120476 kB SwapFree: 120476 kB Dirty: 72 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 166440 kB Slab: 12284 kB Committed_AS: 289752 kB PageTables: 760 kB VmallocTotal: 114680 kB VmallocUsed: 3352 kB VmallocChunk: 110748 kB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
