On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:39:48AM -0700, fraz wrote: > Just switched a processor on a system, went fine, but added an > additional gig of ram and debian doesn't seem to see it. > > It shows up in the BIOS. Googled a bit and added "mem=2048M" to the > kernal > line in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Didn't work. Still just shows a gig (the > original memory). cat /proc/meminfo doesn't show it, nor does top, > vmstat, etc. > > Don't wanna get flamed, but am running unstable 2.4.27 woody right now > and don't want to reinstall if I don't need to. Just want to get this > memory recognized. >
I am guessing you running a PentiumPro class (i686) CPU at least. If so, the default Debian kernel for -386 does not have HIGHMEM support. However, if you switch to the -686 kernel, then you will get HIGHMEM support. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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