New FC2/FC3 testing kernels. <again>

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Dave Jones wrote:

> 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.

Its stuck at the same place after removing 'rhgb quiet' options.

Satish