Martin Marques spake the following on 7/26/2007 1:46 PM:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
Another option is that you try to boot with the PAE kernel. That kernel is made to go over the 4GB boundary on 32bit.
Didn't work for me. :-(
[root@newweb ~]# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3237236 1865956 1371280 0 263588 1279996 -/+ buffers/cache: 322372 2914864 Swap: 0 0 0 [root@newweb ~]# uname -a Linux newweb.matematica 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 07:50:36 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
The board has to support it. It has to be able to map the underlying memory to a higher address space, and the bios has to notify the OS where this is. Are you using a desktop board as opposed to a server board?