>From looking at the code I doubt that it will help - both server and bigiron kernels have support for 64GB of memory. bigiron has support for discontiguous memory, but as we report all memory on one node it probably won't help. I've asked tester with access to the box to try it out (box actually has more memory, but we support only 64GB...)
Meanwhile I've also got confirmation that we have workaround, so we can document it in our knowledge base: If you are trying to use 32bit Ubuntu 6.10 on system with more than 62GB of memory, you need to modify your grub.conf file by using uppermem 40000 kernel --no-mem-option <kernel_image> <andargumentsasalreadypresent> instead of kernel <kernel_image> <andarguments...> This limits initrd image size to approx 32MB, but kernel will no longer crash during bootup. -- 32bit kernels do not boot on box with more than 63GB of memory https://launchpad.net/bugs/87278 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
