[ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04

Tyler J. Wagner tyler at tolaris.com
Fri Jun 11 13:53:59 BST 2010


On Friday 11 June 2010 13:44:38 Liam Proven wrote:
> If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the
> machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all
> of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs
> can't access more than about 3¼-3½ gig of RAM;

Or install 32-bit and then:

apt-get install linux-generic-pae

Reboot, hold SHIFT, and select the pae kernel. Then remove the linux-generic 
package and any generic (not generic-pae) kernels. Once you do that it'll 
always boot pae kernels.

Regards,
Tyler

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"Before we got into this war there were countless 'military experts'
and intelligence analysts that told us this was a good idea, that we
had to do it.  That presented their information, and were so terribly
wrong.  These people are still affecting public policy.  They are still
considered experts.  I'm sorry, shouldn't there be a rule or law that
says if you fuck things up so badly, you can no longer be considered
an expert?"
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