How to make kernel recognize 4GB of RAM
Claudio Miranda
claudio at claudius.com.br
Mon Apr 19 17:02:57 UTC 2010
I installed the PAE kernel, it recognized the 4 GB
$ head -1 /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 4013920 kB
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> For a 32-bit machine you need the PAE kernel to utilize all 4GB's of
> your machine. If you have an 64-bit machine then the default x86-64
> kernel will do this.
>
> I see you have F12 and i686 that should be a PAE enabled kernel. You
> should also see more memory than 3GB with a non PAE enabled kernel.
> Could you post the full output of dmesg?
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