On Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008, Pawel K wrote: > Hello > > I have 4 GB of ram and a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500. > I compiled the kernel as follows: > Processor family > Core 2/newer Xeon > > Subarchitecture Type > PC-compatible > > High Memory Support > Off > > All my remaining packages are compiled as 32 bit binaries.
you installed a 32bit kernel? > > The last switch causes my system to see less than 1 GB of memory: > cat /proc/meminfo: > MemTotal: 901816 kB > > AFAIK kernel does not need High Memory Support in case of 64 bit CPUs. > > What's wrong with my kernel config ? > Maybe it does not run as a 64 bit CPU ? it does. But it needs a 64bit kernel. And to have one you need a 64bit gcc and binutils and glibc and .... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
