On Tuesday 13 November 2007 13:43, David C. Rankin wrote: > ... > > Randall, > > I think you are spot on in your response.
Stranger things have happened. > It is OS related. The BIOS page shows all 4096M recognized and > available. Neither the 10.0 default kernel or XP will use any more > than 3072. It's definite that the 10.0 stock "-smp" kernel omits PAE and hence cannot handle a system with its device registers remapped beyond the 4G limit of a 32-bit physical address. I don't know about Windows XP. I'd have thought it capable of handling that, but I've never tried and don't have any real information. Maybe it's one of those things where you have to buy the deluxe, chrome-plated, bug-reduced "enterprise" version, or something... > I haven't tried the big-smp kernel yet. I have a spare 250G > drive I'll throw in and load 10.3 on with the smp kernel and see how > that goes. Thanks! Certainly that's a safe course of action, but there's very little risk to adding or switching to the -bigsmp kernel on your existing 10.0 installation. Then again, 10.3 seems very nice, and there's no reason not to upgrade, other than the usual fact: Putting a new system in order, so everything's just the way you like it, is always a time-consuming task, especially if you're as picky and particular as I am, have a large complement of packages installed, run several servers and so on. > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
