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Re: RAM puzzle

From: Evgeni Golov <sargentd(at)die-welt.net>
Date: Mon Jul 16 2007 - 14:14:05 EDT

Hi Manon,

please don't CC me, I read debian-laptop ;)

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:46:55 +0200 Manon Metten wrote:

> > You're not, your using the 486 variant ;)
> > Check /boot/config-<kernelversion> for HIGHMEM, yours should have
> > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM set, but you need CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G
> >
> > > So could anybody tell me what's wrong?
> >
> > Use the correct kernel ;)
>
>
>
> Thanks for explaining.
>
> I found these lines in /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486
>
> CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
>
> Does this mean CONFIG_HIGNMEM4G was not set when the kernel was compiled?

Exactly.

> And how do I install the right kernel? This one came with the Debian
> Installer CD.

Hm, the -686 should have been there too, d-i seems to choose the bad one :(
I think you should just install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 and reboot to the new kernel.

Regards
Evgeni

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