Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:54:00 -0500 (EST), Marc Auslander wrote: > I am confused by this and the other explainations. > > To be clear - I am only concerned about the vmlinuz symlink. I know > package management works. > > When I installed bigmen, it swung vmlinuz to the newly installed > kernel, jus

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta writes: >On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > >No. > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace > vmlin

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the regular kernel package? No. my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz with the regular kernel. False, the active kernel is update instead of sec

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:46:06 -0500 (EST), Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz > with the regular kernel. > > or are the installers s

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> "Marc Auslander" : > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace > vmlinuz with the regular kernel. - How did you install your bigmem kernel? - What is your bootloader confi

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-13 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
ChadDavis wrote: There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone had the solution. Google should find the thread. Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms suggestsions, other than: debian bigmem kernel linux With site:lists.debian.

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 14:37, ChadDavis wrote: > > > There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone > had the solution. Google should find the thread. > > > Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms > sugge

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread ChadDavis
> > There was a similar email to list a few months ago. IIRC, someone > had the solution. Google should find the thread. > Yes. I tried to search for this. And nothing. Any search terms suggestsions, other than: debian bigmem kernel linux etc.

Re: bigmem kernel 2.6.24-1

2008-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 10:35, ChadDavis wrote: > When I run the bigmem version of the 2.6.24-1 kernel, my machine slows > to a crawl. It does actually run, but it's shockingly slow. 5-10 > minutes to boot, 5 minutes to login. Then it runs like a Windows > mach