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Michael,

Do you need to load a special kernel or pass boot args to the kernel to
get support for >4GB?


Cheers,

- -sth

sam hooker|http://www.noiseplant.com|i am between the internet


Michael H. Martel wrote:
> Ok, so I've got an oddity.  I've got a DELL Dimension 5150 with 4gb's of
> ram running Ubuntu 8.04 x64 just fine.  If I add in another 2 gb's of
> ram, giving me 6gb's total, when I boot the box it panics with the
> message :
> 
>     Early Exception Rip 000000802889c9 error 0 cr2 69c8
> 
> I've seen some discussion about Ubuntu not supporting more than 4gb but
> I've seen others contradicting it.  The BIOS itself sees it as 6gb's and
> is happy.
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
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