On Saturday September 6 2003 01:20 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Did you install a kernel capable of using that much memory when
> you did your upgrade?
>
> I believe you need to do the initial install with the standard
> kernel and then, afterwards, you can install the Enterprise
> Kernel to take advantage of the extra RAM. You need to specify a
> lower amount of RAM to do the initial install or it will not
> work. Once you have upgraded the kernel you can then specify the
> new (larger) amount of RAM, re-install your nVidia drivers, if
> that is what you used, and you're off to the races.
Same thing I was wonderin. With 1 gig of ram I believe he'd be
better off keeping the UP kernel and adding 'mem=860M' to lilo, or
booting with 'linux mem=860M'. There's a significant memory
management performance hit in the BigMem (enterprise) kernels in
order to provide addressing <= 4gig's of ram.
I have an nvidia GeF2, but use the XFree86 driver. IIRC, there's
issues with nvidia's proprietary driver and >= 1 gig of ram and/or
the bigmem kernels. I think the mem=860 restriction with the UP
kernel would eliminate those problems too (if they still exist?).
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