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I have an Intel Motherboard G33FBC. I have tried several distros (Suse 10.2, Fedora 7 and Mandriva Spring 2001) all for the x86_64 arch. With 4Gigs RAM and "acpi=off" I can install Linux and get the e1000 driver installed, update etc etc.
The crunch comes when I install an extra 4 Gigs RAM. Startup takes 20 minutes and everything is in slow motion. "free -m" shows all the memory.
Any Ideas?
Check what kernel you're running. If you have 4 GB of RAM at install time, and add more later, that could cause this. You need the kernel-bigmem or the enterprise-kernel, for anything over 4 GB. You can always re-compile your existing kernel too, to add bigmem support.
Check what kernel you're running. If you have 4 GB of RAM at install time, and add more later, that could cause this. You need the kernel-bigmem or the enterprise-kernel, for anything over 4 GB. You can always re-compile your existing kernel too, to add bigmem support.
Thanx for your input.
I'm using the kernel that comes with the distro. All 64 bit. Mandriva 2.6.17-13mdv, Suse 2.6.18.2-34 Have used 64 bit Mandriva and Fedora on other 8 Gig machines before with no problems. I will check to make sure of bigmem support.
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