You're sort-of right -- I've got it working, now, by booting my Mac into the 64 bit Kernel.<div>Cheers,</div><div> Doug.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2011 17:15, Paul Morgan-Roach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roachy@roachy.net">roachy@roachy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> On 11 May at 1:15, doug livesey <<a href="mailto:biot023@gmail.com" target="_blank">biot023@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Hi -- so this is being typed from an Ubuntu VM under Mac OSX. I've<br>
> > given up the hope of dual-booting for now -- maybe I'll try again<br>
> > sometime later with 10.04. However, I have 8 gig RAM on my MBP, yet<br>
> > seem only to be able to assign less than 4 gig to my ubuntu image in<br>
> > VirtualBox -- I'm guessing because VirtualBox isn't clever enough to<br>
> > figure out that I have two modules (both report okay in Snow Leopard).</p>
</div><p>Can I hazard a guess that the installation media you used is 32bit?</p>
<p>AFAIK you need to use a 64 bit OS / CPU to use more than 4Gb RAM </p>
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