[install-guide: 1/3] sometimes RAM is missing because of kernel quirks. Sometimes you just did it wrong.
Pete Travis
immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jun 27 22:02:14 UTC 2014
commit 63a7a0bc2395931b0422705cfa0e7931e9bb4297
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Fri Jun 27 15:13:24 2014 -0600
sometimes RAM is missing because of kernel quirks. Sometimes you just did it wrong.
en-US/Trouble_After_Ram.xml | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Trouble_After_Ram.xml b/en-US/Trouble_After_Ram.xml
index 7470f93..13fafba 100644
--- a/en-US/Trouble_After_Ram.xml
+++ b/en-US/Trouble_After_Ram.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@
<tertiary>RAM not recognized</tertiary>
</indexterm>
-
+ <note>
+ <title>Only showing 3.5GB?<title>
+ <para>
+ If you have 4GB or more memory installed, but Fedora only shows around 3.5GB or 3.7GB, you have probably installed a 32bit version of Fedora on a 64bit kernel. For modern systems, the 64bit version of Fedora is recommended. Refer to <xref linkend="sn-which-arch" /> for more details.
+ </para>
+ </title>
+ </note>
<para>
Sometimes, the kernel does not recognize all of your memory (RAM). The following procedure will allow you to confirm this and then adjust the kernel if necessary.
</para>
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