It is not Redhat persay it is the Linux Kernel itself , currently has a limit of about 1G, and you can tweak that limit in the kernel source code, although why there was ever a limit is beyond me, until 2.0.36(35?) the linux kernel had a 64Meg limit in it and there was a special patch to make the system see more than 64Meg.. --- Rajeev Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Redhat6.0 installation has some problem with RAM >1024MB. I > vaguely > remember that over 950+MB RAM you have to do something to get > all RAM > recognized. The quick solution for install is at boot prompt > give option > below. > > > boot: linux mem=512MB (anything but <900MB say), > > This is just at install time, after you will install > Redhat6.0, the > next boot will come up with all memory(i.e 1GB). > > I had another system(Compaq SP700 1GB on which I tried above > which > worked) > > Rajeev > > Kevin Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > > I have been tasked, by my boss, to install Red Hat Linux 6.0 > on machine > > configured as follows: > > > > 4x Pentium II Xeon 450 MHz processors > > > > 1 GB RAM > > > > 3x Sybios SCSI channels on board. > > > > Mylex card with DAC1164P firmware (version 5.06-0-52); > DAC1100 BISO V > > 4.10-34 > > > > Two Seagate ST39173LC 8683MB drives (We have another 18 > drives currently > > set up in three sets of RAID 5 for an NT Server for the same > machine, > > which worked fine. The two drive setup was for initial > testing of Linux > > only.) > > > > I had set up the Mylex card to have either a RAID 0 or a > RAID 7 (Mylex > > JBOD). While installing Linux the results were the same. I > kept getting: > > > > VFS: Cannot open root device 08:21 > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21 > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Kevin Nelson > > > > - > > Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at > http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ > > To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ######################################################################### > (Titanic creators used Linux to simulate the sinking of the > great ship) > ######################################################################### > > Rajeev Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Fluent Inc. 10, Cavendish Court, Lebanon NH-03766 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phone :: (603)-643-2600 x 349 Fax :: (603)-643-3967 > Web:: http://www.fluent.com > ######################################################################### > - > Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at > http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ > To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
