[vox-tech] HIGHMEM enabled kernel

[Gabriel G. Rosa]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:49:03PM -0700, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Yep, you need a different kernel to use 2GB ram.  I don't know if Debian 
> provides a HIGHMEM pre-built kernel or not.  Otherwise, you will need to 
> compile a kernel yourself.  The option to look for is:
> 

I just installed debian off the 20040713 netinst on a dual xeon with 4GB ram.
It recognized all the ram when I switched to the 2.6.7-1-686-smp image.

omega:~# grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.7-1-686-smp
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

-Gabe