On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:14:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> writes: > >> On 15/08/12 04:08 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>>> >>> As stated in the title, I've got 4 GiB of RAM on this computer. The >>> problem is that I'm using kernel 2.6.32-5-686 which does not support 4 >>> GiB of RAM. Precedently, I had used a bigmem kernel. >>> >>> Here, I simply want to get my 4 GiB of RAM fully recognized in an easy >>> fashion. Is it possible? In order the full 4 GiB of RAM is recognized from a 32-bits OS (having PAE enabled or not), your motherboard has to provide that functionaly because there's still a small amount of RAM that is used for devices and it has to be remapped from the BIOS. >> I'd guess you are running Debian/Stable (Squeeze). Simply install the >> bigmem kernel image (linux-image-686-bigmem). >> >> Alternatively, you could upgrade to Wheezy which has the PAE already >> built in. It looks like Wheezy is getting ready for release and it is >> quite stable. >> >> If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit >> version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. I would go for 64-bits but only when installing a new system completely from scratch. > Well, it's 32bit stuff here. However, assuming I install the bigmem > kernel image, as I did precedently, do I risk anything, that is, is it > as simple as an apt-get install, then choosing this new kernel in the > GRUB? Thanks. I would rather use Synaptic to view "in live" what's going on :-) Kernels are usually installed in paralel so right after you trigger a new "linux-image" package there will be a new entry added in GRUB's menu to boot the latest installed kernel and of course, the others. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k0ge73$anh$8...@dough.gmane.org
