New FC2/FC3 testing kernels. <again>

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:22:33AM -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
 > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > Two new ones this time.  2.6.9-1.9_FC2 and 2.6.9-1.715_FC3
 > > As usual, they're 99% the same (dependancy/specfile diffs only).
 > 
 > Regarding kernel-hugemem - your eariler post says:
 > 
 > "If you have a lot of memory (16GB or more), or have a workload that
 > benefits from being able to have more address space, you can use the
 > -hugemem kernel to run with 4g/4g again."
 > 
 > Does this mean - it won't work on machines less than 16GB?

It should work just fine. Remember, this was the default configuration
until recently, so if earlier kernels worked, this should too.

 > I tired it on my thinkpad - with 1GB (assuming it should be simlar to
 > the current kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 with 4g/4g) - but it wouldn't boot.
 > It was stuck at:

That's very odd, and not something I have an explanation for.
Did you have 'quiet' on the boot command line ? Removing it
may print something more useful.

		Dave