Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

--- saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > How did you compile your kernel? Did you > use > > > > > make-kpkg? Did you use > > > > > /boot/config-2.4.18-686 for building new > > kernel? > > > > > > > > > > I'd sugg

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

--- saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How did you compile your kernel? Did you use > > > > make-kpkg? Did you use > > > > /boot/config-2.4.18-686 for building new > kernel? > > > > > > > > I'd suggest you to do the following: > > > > > > > > 1. unpack > /usr/src/kerne

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

> > > How did you compile your kernel? Did you use > > > make-kpkg? Did you use > > > /boot/config-2.4.18-686 for building new kernel? > > > > > > I'd suggest you to do the following: > > > > > > 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 > > > 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .con

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:20:36AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:20:36 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > > > --- Alexei Chetroi

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd suggest you to do the following: 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .config in the top dir of kernel source (kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 should be installed) 3. enable highm

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

--- Jonathan Lassoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST), saravanan > ganapathy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have done recompile using kernel-source-2.4.18 > and > > after reboot I got the following error > > > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

--- Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:49:07AM -0800, saravanan > ganapathy wrote: > > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST) > > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > &

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:10:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:03 + From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody [ snip ] if your sources.

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:49:07AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > [ snip ] > > I have

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:10:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:03 + > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > [ snip ] > > > if you

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST), saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have done recompile using kernel-source-2.4.18 and > after reboot I got the following error > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly > Freeing

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

> > > > > > 2nd, if you want to use kernel that comes with > > > stable, install package > > > kernel-source-2.4.18 and recompile it with > highmem > > > enabled. I wouln't > > > recommend package from kernel.org as Debian > kernel > > > include some patches > > > and security back-ports. Otherwi

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:59:47AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:59:47 -0800 (PST) From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM supp

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:59:47AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:59:47 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM suppo

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

ECTED]>, > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > > > > My arch is 686 only. 686-smp testing version only > > supports highmem support. I 've installed > > kernel-image-2.4.18-smp (stable) which doesn't > support > > hig

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:10:52PM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:10:52 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

My arch is 686 only. 686-smp testing version only supports highmem support. I 've installed kernel-image-2.4.18-smp (stable) which doesn't support highmem support Sarav --- Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

saravanan ganapathy wrote: > I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM > server. I have enabled smp support by installing > kernel-image-2.4.18-smp. Now it shows dual processor. > But the os detects my RAM as 900 MB only. How do I > enable the os to detect actual RAM(2 GB)? Which architec

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

saravanan ganapathy wrote: Thx Jonathan for ur help . I got the kernel(2.4.28) from kernel.org and started recompiling. My steps: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.28 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-smp .config edit .config and include CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y & CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-im

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

Thx Jonathan for ur help . I got the kernel(2.4.28) from kernel.org and started recompiling. My steps: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.28 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-smp .config edit .config and include CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y & CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-image Then it prompts lot o

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

May it an opportunity to migrate to Sarge. Any how Sarge is on the egde to be the stable version. hth, Jerome saravanan ganapathy wrote: I googled and couldn't find the .deb kernel package which supports highmem( its available in testing version only) So I think I need to use the latest 2.4.x kern

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:06:39 -0800 (PST), saravanan > > ganapathy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hai, > > > I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM > > > server. I have enabled smp support by installing > > > kernel-image-2.4.18-smp. Now it shows dual > > processor. > > > But th

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

I googled and couldn't find the .deb kernel package which supports highmem( its available in testing version only) So I think I need to use the latest 2.4.x kernel from kernel.org. If I am using debian kernel packages, then I can get security updates from debian. Is kernel.org provides security

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

You need a kernel that supports large amounts of RAM. You could get the sources and compile it yourself which can take some time, but I personally found very easy to do. I would think that there is a .deb package of a kernel with this support as well, but I don't know that much about apt. Perhaps d