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

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Apr 2 09:04:48 PDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 07:54 -0700, Eric Kahklen wrote:
> Here is a "How To" I found on the subject.
> 
> http://www.kreno.be/2007/11/22/howto-ubuntu-4gb-memory-support/
> 
> I'd like to avoid building custom kernels if possible.  Is this an  
> Ubuntu specific issue? or do other distros have the same problem?

Wow that article is terribly worded, but it is possible that their
kernel has no HIGHMEM enabled at all by default, which would be pretty
lame.

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