[SLL] 32 bit distro that supports 4GB ram with stock kernel

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Apr 2 06:50:39 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 06:47 -0700, Eric Kahklen wrote:
> Thanks for the insight :)  Since this is only a laptop, I'll never go 
> over 4 GB on this machine.  As far as I understand it, the latest stable 
> version of Ubuntu's stock kernel only supports 3 GB of ram and you need 
> to recompile the kernel for larger support.  I was hoping the never 
> version supported 4 GB's out of the box vs. reconfiguring the kernel.  
> If there are easier solution vs. a kernel hack please let me know.

3 seems like a very strange number.  I'd suggest booting up a live image
and see exactly how much ram it sees.

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