[Gllug] Fwd: More than 1GB Memory problem

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 caparo at saltmine.org.uk wrote:

>  picked this up from another list, thought that this list would know the 
> answer if anyone did :-}
>
>    I have an IBM xseries 232 server with 2 processors PETIUM III, with
>    4GB of physical memory, with  RedHat AS 2.1 kernel 2.4.9-e.16smp
>    (compiled kernel upgraded: I mean I download the .rpm package
>    precompiled and only install it with rpm -Uvh)...
> 
>    But when I reboot the linux, isn't recognize the 4GB (only see 1GB)...

The kernel (which is horribly old and should be upgraded!) probably isn't 
configured for big memory support. 

The poster needs to build an updated kernel and ensure that he includes 
support for big memory.

Jason Clifford
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