64 Bit Linux shows 4GB... was Using all of 4GB RAM...

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Wed Oct 1 20:39:49 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 01 October 2008 12:56:40 pm Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore suggested that I boot a 64 bit Live CD to see what it
> said about memory usage.  So I did:
>

>
> So... what is the easiest way to convert my 32 bit installation to 64
> bits ?  Please don't tell me to reinstall because I just did that
> earlier this week to go from F9 back to F8.

you could try running the PAE kernel. 

edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel  and change prefered to kernel-PAE
then "yum install kernel-PAE"  that might be enough to give you access to all 
4 gb since it seems to not be a hardware limitation but a 32 bit os 
limitation.

Dennis




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