Bas hendriks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas Jaeger schreef: >> Bas hendriks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Anders Norrbring schreef: >>> >>>> Per Jessen skrev: >>>> >>>>> Bas hendriks wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I am building a vmware server with SuSe10.2/64 as host os. >>>>>> The problem is that only 2 Gb ram is available in SuSe, while 4 Gb is >>>>>> installed. >>>>>> >>>>> I think you need to use a kernel with support for 4Gb memory. Either >>>>> rebuild yourself, or find a suitable opensuse kernel. (maybe a -bigsmp >>>>> version). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> /Per Jessen, Zürich >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Works perfectly fine for my 4 and 8 GB memory machines. Just plug in >>>> the DVD and install, it chooses the right kernel automatically. In >>>> my case on the 4GB box, uname -r >>>> 2.6.16.27-0.9-smp >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks for the reply's >>> >>> The system wont boot with -bigsmp. >>> >> >> Bigsmp? Are you running a 64-bit x86-64 kernel? That one has no >> bigsmp, just use the smp kernel (or on 10.2: The default one). >> >> Andreas >> > > I didn't understand the advice to run -bigsmp as i don't need PEA on > i386_64 to address full memory (a specific 32bit way), but i didn't > know if there where other difference between the kernel's and i > guessed that on a 64bit system the packet manager (YaST) only made > 64bits kernel's available. > > > As warned before: I'm farly new to SuSe/linux ;-) > > I'll try i386_32 with PEA now.
The default 64-bit x86-64 kernel should support this without problems. I assumed that you run into the following problem: you run the 32-bit bigsmp kernel on a 64-bit system - and then it would not boot at all... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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