live CD not PAE?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 09/04/2009 10:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I've been upgrading my system and plugged in a fedora 11 live CD
> just to see if it worked with new motherboard/cpu/memory (it did),
> but /proc/meminfo showed only 4 gig (more or less), while there
> are actually 8 gig in the system (and memtest can see all 8 gig).
> 
> Is this normal behavior with live CD?

Yes. The Live CD has space for only one kernel and since PAE doesn't
actually boot in some systems, the live cd uses the non-PAE kernel.

Rahul