On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:17 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > 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 remember reading that somewhere that something needed to be addressed in order to run over a certain figure of ram, but when i was playing around with it, it started downloading something, and i assumed it was a kernel patch or something to handle the higher amount of memory. yes, i assumed. hell, half the time i just assume what it's downloading is what i need, and so far i havn't had any problems. until now, of course. > 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?). well, i'll keep that driver in mind for the nvidia GeF2 card and i'll give it a try later, although right now, i have seen a noticable change in my screen image when i pulled the RIVA card and put the GeF2 card in. i have no clue what the capabilities of the card are either, as i didn't buy it, it came inside a comp case that had a bad motherboard. NVIDIA tech support couldn't even tell me, other than to just check the specs on their website, so as far as i know, it could only be a 32Mb card or it could be a 64mb or 128mb, i have no clue. so anyway, how do i fix my screwups? the lilo screen now has all the regular options plus the "old linux", "old linux-nonfb", "old linux failsafe", which those are the ones that i can't get anywhere in. do i just forge onward and remove those things from lilo.conf or can i fix what i screwed up? thanks! Mike
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