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10-01-2004, 06:19 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: MDK: 10,10.1,10_amd64,9.2,9.1 . Debian: sarge,woody, Gentoo (X86 amd64 Sparc)
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4gb kernel for unknown reasons in LiLO
Hi,
Just reinstalled my MDK10.0 official, and I saw in LILO there was a i686-up-4gb kernel although I do not have 4gb (only got 1 gb), and an AMD64 3200+. I do know how to get it out of LILO, but I was wandering why it was inserted by the installer.
Kan someone explain this to me?
Last edited by Boudewijn; 10-01-2004 at 11:04 AM.
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10-01-2004, 07:41 AM
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Shouldn't be a problem - i686 works with amd64 and 4 gig is the maximum RAM this kernel works with.
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10-01-2004, 11:04 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: MDK: 10,10.1,10_amd64,9.2,9.1 . Debian: sarge,woody, Gentoo (X86 amd64 Sparc)
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Ok thanks :-)
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10-02-2004, 07:05 PM
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Actually, what does your free command give you with the 4 gb kernel... It Seems you need the 4GB kernel to see all ram on a 1GB anyway... If you use the normal kernel you will only see about 900MB I think...
The 4GB kernel was probably installed for this reason.
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10-02-2004, 07:10 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: MDK: 10,10.1,10_amd64,9.2,9.1 . Debian: sarge,woody, Gentoo (X86 amd64 Sparc)
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Well to be honest: I'm not using it atm. I am using 2.6.7-1.mm.5mdk which is a bit newer.
[root@zeus boudewijn]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 907028 901828 5200 0 824 611868
-/+ buffers/cache: 289136 617892
Swap: 811240 0 811240
Is the output on this box.... now I've seen this i'm going to get the 2.6.8.x 4gb kernel :+
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