Scott Silva wrote: > 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 at newweb ~]# free >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 3237236 1865956 1371280 0 263588 1279996 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 322372 2914864 >> Swap: 0 0 0 >> [root at 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? Yes: Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes. BIOS Information Vendor: Intel Corp. Version: EV91510A.86A.0482.2006.0222.2350 -- 21:50:04 up 2 days, 9:07, 0 users, load average: 0.92, 0.37, 0.18 --------------------------------------------------------- Lic. Martín Marqués | SELECT 'mmarques' || Centro de Telemática | '@' || 'unl.edu.ar'; Universidad Nacional | DBA, Programador, del Litoral | Administrador ---------------------------------------------------------