large memory

michaell taylor michaell.taylor at boxwoodmeans.com
Thu Jul 19 14:40:51 UTC 2007


argh --- that's it.  Just couldn't remember the name.  Thanks so much!

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:18:28 -0500, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:

> michaell taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am trying to get fedora 7 installed on a dell poweredge sc1430, two
>> dual processor machine with 8 gigs of memory.
>>
>> The problem is the memory.  Although bios recognized 8 gigs, fedora
>> seems to only see 4 gigs.
>>
>> I vaguely remember this problem from a previous fedora release.  I
>> solved it before (I am reasonably sure) by compiling or installing a
>> special kernel for high memory systems.
>
> Try:
>
> yum install kernel-PAE
>
> and reboot to the PAE kernel.
>
> Mogens



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