Please help

wennie · 03-05-2005, 02:37 PM

Hi all,

We have purchased a Dell 2850 dual 3.2 Ghz processor with 6 Gig of memory. the hardware system can detect the 6 Gig mem but when I install Fedora Core 2 64 bit it only detect 3 Gig memory.

How can I instruct Linux that the hardware have 6Gig of mem? can you please help me? Also i would like to re compile my kernel to 2.6.9 or 2.6.10, is there a special command that I can enable 6 GiG?

Thank you very much,

wennie

acid_kewpie · 03-05-2005, 03:37 PM

in the kernel configs you'll see an option under processor type and features for high memory support. you would need to enable the 64gb option.

but.. you're runnign FC2 (a outdated and really sketchy realise of a distro primarily designed for testing) on such heavy duty kit... that's such a mismatch... why are you using that?? you'd benefit from an enterprise level distro, which will probably come preconfigured for 64gb ram... e.g. rhel / centos / sles

and you'll get a lot better help with a decent title...

wennie · 03-05-2005, 03:46 PM

hi acid,

Thank you very much, Im trying to look for that option but its seems it is disable i cannot see it. any way I will try to search for it again.
on the Issue of using FC2 because it seems there's a lot help on the help specially here at linuxquestions compare to other distros, I also have sles 8.0, I will try this one also.

thanks again,

wennie