-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/07 12:51, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Evgeni, > > On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: >> >> > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 >> kernel: >> > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux >> ^^^ >> >> You're not, your using the 486 variant ;) >> Check /boot/config-<kernelversion> for HIGHMEM, yours should have >> CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM set, but you need CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G >> >> > So could anybody tell me what's wrong? >> >> Use the correct kernel ;) > > > > Thanks for explaining. > > I found these lines in /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 > > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > > Does this mean CONFIG_HIGNMEM4G was not set when the kernel was compiled?
Correct. There were no 486 machines with more than a GB of RAM, and those CPUs probably don't have the features needed by HIGHMEM. > And how do I install the right kernel? This one came with the Debian > Installer CD. # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGm7aFS9HxQb37XmcRAgfUAJ0cFBe/Qz1FzvnuYip8bqr8fKgt5wCaAp84 evxyI9pKRE6GMI55ml8TuVU= =1Quc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
