advice on partitioning

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:23:49 -0700 (PDT)
AA <asokanon at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello again, 
>  
> > This is a kernel thing...
> > 
> > You need to have high memory enabled..
> > 
> > 
> > Can't remember the incantation.. Right now..
> > 
> > Vram
> 
> yes, this is what the warning that I saw told me.  I
> will search for this online, but if you do happen to
> remember how to do it please let me know.
> Thanks in advance, 
> SMH

You must be running the 386 kernel: these have a memory limit around 900MB or so (I forget the exact number). the command " uname -r" will tell you, for instance

2.6.10-5-386

To see your architecture and kernel type consult  "  uname -a " which gives full output like

Linux mmx 2.6.10-5-386 #1 Tue Jun 7 08:26:42 UTC 2005 i586 GNU/Linux

That output is from an old pentium 200 mmx which is i586 - yours will probably say i686. The thing to do is to run

apt-cache search linux-image

and choose  an appropriate kernel ( say  linux-image-686 or one of the "k" series for AMD if applicable) from the list that presents you, and of course install it then reboot. Your memory should then appear accurately, minus a bit for the kernel stack, if I remember correctly.

Avoid the 2.6.11 series of Ubuntu kernels, which had an issue with inotify amongst other problems, apparently.

Peter


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