Re: FC6 kernels & 4GB of memory
Darryl wrote:
I tried downloading the latest/greatest 2.6.21 kernel and compiling
my
own 32bit "PAE" & "regular" kernels but they did the same thing.
"regular" sees all the memory but tells me to use a PAE kernel and
"PAE"
won't use all the memory and crashes on boot without mem=4095m. A
little frustrating since the "regular" kernel and memtest86 see all the
memory. The good news is that the on-board NIC is natively supported in
.21 though :-/
I found a year-old posting from Andi Kleen that suggested using
'iommu=force' for a VIA chipset and it actually worked :-) In the 64bit
kernel anyway. The atl1 driver for the on-board NIC works in the 64bit
kernel too but seems to make the machine reboot when doing a DHCP
request for an IP address on 32bit kernels. I'd prefer to stick with
32bit though...