[Fedora-xen] 64-Bit RAM Detection >4GB?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Oct 24 08:14:38 UTC 2007


Dustin Henning wrote:
> The grub installed with Fedora has a bug that causes xen (and sometimes
> other kernels) to detect the memory wrong.
> Bug URLs follow:
> xen-users mailing list archive:
> [url]http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-08/msg00028.htm
> l[/url]
> Bugzilla:
> [url]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250299[/url]
> 
> Theoretically, it could be argued that the BIOS is the problem and not grub,
> I mean, it sounds like Dale's machine was functional without this patch, and
> MSI isn't exactly a Linux Player.  Either way, the patch suggested in those
> two locations resolved my issue.

Thanks for investigating this and posting the follow-up.  I did read 
your original report, but had no idea how to help.

Rich.

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